The Curse of Oak Island (2014) s02e06 Episode Script
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Tonight on The
Curse of Oak Island
And in order to dig in
the Money Pit, we have to shut
off all the flood tunnels.
Start it up, Rick!
And maybe this dye test
will lead us in that direction.
We're here in the
South of France, and we're
really trying to dig back to
find the roots of this.
If you were going to look for
the treasure of the Knights
Templar
I would start in
Oak Island.
It's right in front
of you right now.
I found something.
I'm excited.
There is an island
in the North Atlantic where men
have been looking for treasure
for more than 200 years.
So far, they have uncovered
booby-trapped flood tunnels,
carved stones with strange
symbols, 17th century Spanish
coins, and evidence of a wooden
vault covered in concrete.
Six men have lost their
lives trying to solve the
mystery.
And according to legend, one
more will have to die before
the treasure can be found.
Over the last few
weeks, Rick and Marty Lagina,
along with their partners, have
made astonishing progress on Oak
Island.
Rick, I've got a
question to ask you.
Do I have to pay for this trip?
With information, yes.
After locating the
original Money Pit, and then
drilling to a depth of 142 feet,
the team obtained two core
samples.
Concrete and then
wood.
That's the description.
That's what they found
in the top of the vault.
Core samples which,
amazingly, match the historical
descriptions of a mysterious
seven-foot tall wooden vault,
first reported by treasure
hunter William Chappell in 1897.
But although finding the
so-called Chappell vault
represents an enormous
breakthrough, the Laginas now
face an even bigger problem: how
to get to it.
For the past two centuries,
every attempt to drill below 90
feet has encountered intense
flooding, long believed to be
the result of a network of
elaborate booby-trapped flood
tunnels that run deep
underground.
In order to-to dig in
the Money Pit, we have to shut
off all the flood tunnels, and
right now, we're only certain of
two.
We need to make certain there
aren't any others.
Hey, Dan!
You gonna catch us some supper,
mate?
Might, if you like
mackerel.
Today, with the
help of Dan and Dave
Blankenship, Rick Lagina and
and Divemaster Tony Sampson are
scouting the possible locations
where the flood tunnels are
believed to enter Oak Island.
The supposed five
drains.
Right.
But that was never
ascertained that it was only
five?
Hard to say, because
if you want to find-find that
out, you got to do more testing,
you know.
Right.
In 1850, a team of
treasure hunters claimed they
found evidence of five stone box
drains in Smith's Cove on the
eastern side of the island.
According to reports, the drains
were designed to feed seawater
into the tunnels, which, in
turn, would undermine all
attempts to excavate the Money
Pit.
We have to shut off
the water before we can do the
dig.
I, specifically, am interested
in if there's another flood
tunnel system, undisturbed.
This whole island is about
information.
Get enough information, and
maybe we can solve it.
In 1988, Oak Island
residents Dan and Dave
Blankenship recreated a test
that was first conducted by
treasure hunter Frederick Blair
back in 1898.
The test involved pouring
non-toxic dye down one of the
flooded treasure shafts, and
then, trying to identify if and
where the dye might be seeping
out into the surrounding ocean.
The dye came out at Smith's
Cove at the island's south
shore, and at a third location
just north of Fred Nolan's
property.
I mean, look at how far
we are from Smith's Cove.
Yeah, I know, Rick.
I can't believe that
the flooding system is this
large.
Hey, I didn't dig it.
This lends credence
to what I said to you, Rick.
There's more than one flooding
system here.
Yeah.
There's several.
If there is a new flood
tunnel, that means that we could
possibly uncover those drains
and learn how these, that have
been disturbed significantly,
really function.
And maybe we could learn how to
stop the water into the Money
Pit.
Tony, why don't we head over to
South Shore and check out the
other place?
Okay.
For Rick Lagina and
other members of his team,
finding and sealing off the
so-called flood tunnels could be
the most important step in
solving the Oak Island mystery.
But there are some who believe
the answers lie not on Oak
Island but thousands of miles
away and far back in time.
While researching the history of
Oak Island, Marty Lagina's son,
Alex, has invited his father to
join him on a fact-finding trip
to Southern France.
I can see one thing.
I mean, it's spectacularly
beautiful, right?
KATHLEEN McGOWAN: There's
certainly treasure in the
landscape.
Joining them is
author and researcher Kathleen
McGowan, who claims she can
prove not only what the
treasure is but where it came
from.
For the first stop on their
journey, she has brought them to
see the medieval ruins at the
small town of Montsegur.
It is here, according to
McGowan, that the mystery of Oak
Island began more than 800 years
ago.
Phew!
That is impressive.
Wow.
This is the most
sacred land of the region.
You can see why they called it
Montsegur, which means "the
secure mountain."
Yes.
Because it was
deemed impregnable as a
fortress.
Montsegur was a
sacred place to the Cathar
people a sect of early
Christians who lived in this
region of Southern France in the
12th and early 13th centuries.
According to scholars, the
Cathars claimed to be able to
trace their origins all the way
back to the days of Jesus.
This is all about
the potential origins of what
you guys are actually looking
for.
There is an idea that the
Cathars had all of the most
sacred treasure in human history
right here in this place.
It includes the Holy Grail.
It includes the Ark of the
Covenant.
That's fascinating.
The Ark of the
Covenant and the Holy Grail?
Because many of their beliefs
were considered heretical to the
Catholic Church in Rome, the
Cathars were persecuted.
But there are some who believe,
not so much for their faith, as
for the sacred treasures that
they possessed.
So, this is a
monument to the Cathar people.
What happens in 1209, the Pope
declares a crusade against the
Cathar people, and begins to
massacre them by the tens of
thousands.
In 1244 AD, Pope
Innocent IV authorized a bloody
massacre of the Cathars, which
left approximately 500 of them
cornered atop a mountain inside
the fortress of Montsegur.
Tired, weak and with little food
left, most agreed to renounce
their faith and were allowed to
go free.
But in a surprise move, nearly
200 of the most devout Cathar
monks promised to surrender in
exchange for a two-week period
of truce.
The request was granted.
A night or perhaps
two nights prior to the
surrender, four Cathar men
escaped, taking all of the
Cathar treasure with them.
Wow.
According to
McGowan, the Cathars gave the
sacred objects in their
possession to members of the
Knights Templar in hopes the
ancient order of warrior monks
would keep them out of the hands
of their enemies.
The treasure is
moved into Templar territory.
Then, after that, the treasure
would have been taken out of
France, and secreted somewhere
where it's safe, to Oak Island.
Let's go up.
I thought I was a
pretty good student of history.
I knew nothing of the Cathars.
I can believe that they were
sheltering some great knowledge
or great treasure.
Almost there.
Well, this is it, huh?
This is.
This would have been the main
part of the castle.
It's been rebuilt since the
Cathars were here.
Mm-hmm.
KATHLEEN Awfully small to
hold 500 people.
Well, yeah, I was going
to say, it looks a little
It does.
It does.
It's a lot smaller than
it looks.
So what I'm going
to show you is that this is
where the treasure came and
went through this pathway
here.
Those last two weeks, when the
Cathars were all in here, they
took the treasure down the
mountain on a pulley system, and
landing safely in Templar hands.
I'm standing at the
top of Montsegur.
Quite a story.
In a spot that was for sure the
last stand of a people.
And these people lowered
something down to people waiting
below to secret it away.
That was intriguing.
Why were they so viciously
attacked?
And what did they have?
Did it leave and maybe go to
North America?
We got to find those things out
yet we don't know.
Who'd have guessed that a couple
of young boys' fascination with
an island off of Nova Scotia
would have led here?
It feels like a long ways away
right now.
Start it up, Rick.
17 feet, David.
How are we looking?
Okay, Tony, right about
here.
Cut it here.
Okay, mate.
Back on Oak Island,
Rick Lagina along with Dave
and Dan Blankenship and
Divemaster Tony Sampson are
at the island's south shore to
scout another area for an
upcoming dye test.
So it's right off of
here?
Yep.
Where the ice holes
were.
There was four of
'em, uh, initially.
First this way here,
here, there and there?
Yep.
In the winter of
1980, Dan Blankenship was
overseeing a pumping operation
in the Money Pit when he noticed
four large circular holes in the
frozen bay off the island's
southern shore.
These same so-called ice holes
appeared again in 1987,
convincing Dan that he had
discovered at least one of the
places where the water that
flooded both 10-X and the Money
Pit was coming from.
It's awful hard to
comprehend that these tunnels or
whatever they were that was
keeping 'em there was air
bubbles, like I say, coming
up and it's awful hard to
explain why they're out in 12,
13 foot of water.
But there that's where they
were.
Well, Dan, I-I really
would like to see one of those
box drains undisturbed so we
can see for ourselves and maybe,
just maybe, this dye test will
lead us in that direction.
I'd love to see one, and to find
that would be pretty
significant.
As Rick Lagina
prepares to conduct the dye
test, his brother Marty and
nephew Alex
Which way?
This way.
Yeah, where to?
have journeyed
to Rennes-le-Château in Southern
France with author and
researcher Kathleen McGowan.
You know, if you're
gonna have a place steeped in
tradition and secret legends and
things, you know, this is where
you would have situated it,
right?
Absolutely.
Which I guess is what
they did.
Kathleen is
convinced that before sacred
religious artifacts like the Ark
of the Covenant and the Holy
Grail made their way to Oak
Island, they were hidden here by
members of the Knights Templar.
This village is
arguably the most enigmatic, uh,
mysterious place in France.
Um, it's known as the village of
mystery.
There are little symbols
everywhere in Rennes-le-Château.
As you'll see right here, the
house we're about to go into,
there's an iron Templar cross
over the door.
Oh, yes.
And that is because
we are about to enter into a
Templar household.
Hello, hello.
Hello, Tobi.
Hi, Kathleen.
Nice to see you.
Oh, lovely to see
you.
Bonjour.
My name is Marty.
Nice to meet you.
Tobi.
Tobi.
Tobi, I'm Alex Lagina.
Nice to meet you.
I'm Tobi.
So, may I introduce you?
Yes.
Come.
For decades,
researchers studying the Oak
Island mystery have been struck
by mounting evidence that
members of the Knights Templar
visited the island as early as
the 14th century nearly 100
years before Christopher
Columbus is credited with
discovering the so-called "New
World."
If such a connection could be
proven, it would lend credence
to the many legends which
suggest that the Ark of the
Covenant and even the Holy Grail
are among the sacred treasures
buried on Oak Island.
Tobi, being a 21st
century Templar and a Templar
historian, is really the man who
can answer a lot of the
questions that you guys have
Mm-hmm.
about how the
Templars relate to Oak Island.
I-I don't know how
where to start.
I mean, you know.
You are a Knight Templar.
You are a
It's amazing, isn't
it?
I had no idea.
That-That is amazing.
And-And Tobi, that's
for sure, right there was a
treasure, it's never been
found those are sure things?
There's
That's for
There's no
speculation?
Mm-hmm.
That sounds right.
Philip IV
otherwise known as Philip the
Fair ruled France from 1285
to 1314.
He was a ruthless and ambitious
monarch who, due to mounting
debts, desired to possess the
wealth of both French Jews and
the Knights Templar.
On Friday, October 13, 1307,
Philip ordered the arrest of the
Templars and burned many of them
at the stake.
I still don't see how
it connects to Oak Island.
Wait, wait, wait a
second did you say there were
Templar tombs on Oak Island?
Right.
There is a rock at the
center of the cross that
Nolan
You know, the-the
stone cross?
Mm-hmm.
At the center there
was no rock, so they dug, and
buried just below the surface
there is a rock, and it has a
what's been described as a
sword.
A possible Templar
Tomb on Oak Island?
In 1981, while surveying his Oak
Island property, treasure hunter
Fred Nolan discovered five
large, cone-shaped boulders that
formed a gigantic, perfectly
symmetrical cross.
After digging in the center,
several feet down, Nolan
unearthed a sixth boulder with
what appeared to be a human face
and the image of a sword carved
into it.
These boulders, now known as
Nolan's Cross, could be the
pivotal evidence that the
Knights Templar buried something
extraordinary on Oak Island.
If you were gonna look
for the treasure of the Knights
Templar right now, today you
would look on Oak Island?
Today is an
important day on Oak Island.
This is the day Rick Lagina
hopes he will discover the
location of what many believe to
be man-made flood tunnels that
have prevented the Money Pit
from being excavated.
If successful, Rick and the team
will then be able to dam up the
tunnels and then begin digging
142 feet down to the mysterious
wooden vault they discovered a
few days ago.
You get that pump
started yet?
Not yet.
Let's have a little conversation
first, figure out what
exactly what we're doing.
You're gonna turn the
key on, then you're gonna start
it up, then you're gonna pull.
Everybody's got to keep
their heads in the game today,
because we're only gonna have
one shot at this.
This really is a delicate dance,
if you will.
We need assets in the air, we
need assets on the ground, we
need someone to monitor the pump
in 10-X, we need people in
boats.
In order to monitor
the areas where the dye may be
found seeping into the ocean,
Rick has chartered a helicopter
from a company in Halifax.
On his direction, the teams
stationed in boats will mark any
areas where dye emerges with
special buoys.
You're gonna man the
pumps.
You and Jack are gonna be in one
boat.
You're gonna be on South Shore.
Okay?
Tony, you got the fast boat.
The hope is there's maybe a new
flood system, undisturbed.
Everybody keep their heads in
the game, everybody watch.
Everybody knows what we're
looking for.
Eyes on target and-and we're
off.
She good?
Good.
Start it up, Rick.
The three-inch pump
Rick has set up will force more
than 300 gallons of water per
minute into 10-X.
But based on dye tests
conducted in the past, it could
still take several hours for the
dye to work its way through the
so-called flood tunnels and seep
into the ocean.
Tell me if it's okay.
We good?
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
It's going quick.
Where do you think it's gonna
come up at?
Well, I know it's gonna
come up out four, three places
here and three places on this
side.
You think it's still
connected in Smith's Cove?
Yep, yeah.
Nothing has changed, Jack, since
the last time we did this.
Rick's hoping there's a third
one over on that side, but
If you find it, then
pretty much you can
reverse-engineer it, which might
give you an idea to how these
were made as well.
True.
I didn't know this was
a sterile operation, you needed
rubber gloves on.
For the test, Rick
is using a nontoxic bright green
dye that can color 120,000
gallons of water per pound.
What color is that?
Yellow green.
The real unknown, of
course, is when is the dye
coming out?
That's the real unknown.
As long as everybody's in
position, I think we'll be fine.
But you know, will some
unknown factor enter into the
equation?
Probably.
It's Oak Island.
So, we're about to
enter the most amazing church
I've ever been in, which is the
church here in
Rennes-le-Château.
There are some clues here that
point to Oak Island.
In their search for
evidence that the treasures of
the Knights Templar may be
buried on Oak Island, Marty and
Alex Lagina have arranged to
visit the legendary church at
Rennes-le-Château.
When was this church
built?
The church had
been built about 800 after
Christ.
It had been used as a chapel for
the castle.
And later dedicated to Mary
Magdalene and used as a church
for the village of
Rennes-le-Château.
For decades, the
church at Rennes-le-Château has
been the focus of intense
mystery and speculation.
There are even many who believe
it marks the resting place of
St. Mary Magdalene an early
follower of Jesus of Nazareth.
If, as Tobi and Kathleen
believe, the treasures of the
Knights Templar were once hidden
in Rennes-le-Château and
eventually moved across the
ocean to Oak Island, could there
be evidence in the church to
prove their theory?
There are no
accidents in this church.
Every inch of it is decorated
with a very specific purpose.
And some of that decoration, I
believe, pertains to Oak Island
and pertains to taking things to
the West.
One of those elements here is
the inclusion of corn in this
statue of John the Baptist
baptizing Jesus.
Corn?
A large-grain plant native to
North America?
Why would a statue depicting
Jesus' baptism feature a plant
that was not known in Europe
until the late 15th century?
So this corn is
obviously significant because,
I mean, corn is not indigenous
to this region.
It would not have been around
here.
And certainly not at the time
that this is depicting.
Absolutely.
Everything about it is
anomalous.
There certainly would have been
no reason for there to have been
corn included in a baptismal
statue that was supposed to
represent the holy land in the
first century.
And this points, at the
end, westward to Oak Island.
But you know what,
that's kind of interesting.
Are you familiar with the stone
that was found in the Money Pit?
That 90-foot stone with the
inscription on it?
We just had a conversation with
a guy who thinks he found an
alternate translation to it,
and it involves corn.
Really?
Yeah.
So that's a
little interesting there.
Yeah.
What I'm
going to show you today is a
very advanced cipher, beyond
reasonable doubt.
During a recent
visit to Oak Island, Swedish
researcher Daniel Ronnstam
presented Rick, Marty and the
team with his theory that the
carved symbols on the so-called
90-foot stone indicated a dual
cipher.
Using an ingenious decoding
method, Ronnstam believes that
the stone was meant to provide
instructions for shutting off
the ocean water that floods the
Money Pit and that the method
involves the use of corn.
With its high absorbency, a dry
grain, like corn, would swell
and seal up any booby-trapped
flood tunnels.
Could the inclusion of corn in
this statue of Jesus' baptism
really be a deliberate clue, not
only linking Oak Island to the
Cathar treasure, but also
showing how to retrieve it?
So the church in
Rennes-le-Château is certainly
one of the oddest Catholic
churches I've ever been in, and
I've been in quite a lot of
Catholic churches.
So it's a very strange church,
and I think these things go
deeper than our observations.
I could keep you in
this church all day, or for the
next three days, because there's
so much to see, but there's more
out there.
Yes.
All right, let's
go.
Back on Oak Island,
the dye test is well underway.
While Rick Lagina looks for
evidence from the air
diver Tony Sampson and veteran
treasure hunter Dan Henskee,
will watch Smith's Cove and
Joudrey's Cove on the northeast
side of the island.
Okay, Dan, I think
we'll just, um, we'll hang out
in this area, see if we can see
anything come up, until we hear
from the guys on the other side,
okay?
On the south shore,
Charles Barkhouse and Jack
Begley are keeping an eye on the
area where, in 1980, Dan
Blankenship reported seeing a
series of so-called "ice holes."
Where's the search area
in your mind, Charles?
I only have a rough idea.
Although the bright
green dye has been pumped down
10-X for two hours now, no sign
of it has appeared in the ocean.
We have everything in
position, and there's still that
window, you know two more
hours, give or take and we're
still hopeful.
You think they saw
any dye on Smith's Cove?
I sure hope so.
I wonder if they've
seen anything on the other side
of the island.
I didn't think it'd
take so long, but
I had no idea.
Yeah.
I'm hoping that, uh,
since the day is not over, we
may still get lucky.
As the day moved on and
we weren't seeing dye, I think a
little bit of frustration crept
in.
Doesn't look like we've
seen anything else come up here.
Nobody knows what's
going on underground there, and,
uh, channels can open up and
channels can get closed off.
I thought, okay, we
need something, we need
something here.
No, man, we don't
see a thing out here at all.
No dye out there.
Then Fred had an idea
that maybe if we went up higher,
we would get a different
perspective.
And as we were coming around the
island, we both looked down and
went, "Wait a minute!"
What's that down there?
You can see, it looks like
green, uh, green coming out of
there.
Suddenly, Rick
Lagina spots what appears to be
a large patch of green water
just off Smith's Cove.
I saw green in the
water there, so I was excited.
You know, I was in a rush to get
Tony over there.
There!
Right there!
Is it possible that
dye has started to emerge from
one of the so-called flood
tunnels?
While conducting
a dye test at Smith's Cove, Rick
Lagina has spotted a large patch
of green in the water.
How is that for
location, buddy?
If the team can
pinpoint the exact area where
the dye is flowing out, they
believe they can prevent ocean
water from flooding not only
10-X but also the Money Pit.
We see a slight
green greenish tinge to our
port side.
Copy?
I was excited, but then
Fred said, "Look, there's a
sandbar there.
There's-there's seaweed growing
in there.
And-and at
Then at that
point, typical of Oak Island,
you know, okay, we're seeing it
and then the falloff to reality.
The reality was it was actually,
uh, seaweed.
Unfortunately, now
there is no sign of
phosphorescent green dye
anywhere.
All we needed was for
Oak Island to behave kindly for
one time, just give us a win.
But didn't happen.
With daylight
waning and the helicopter
running low on fuel, Rick Lagina
is forced to call an end to the
day's operation.
Okay.
Grab a seat, my friend.
Yeah, and the rope.
And the rope.
It was troubling
because we had followed the
regimen that had achieved
success in the past.
So it begets several questions.
Where did the water go?
Why didn't we see dye out in the
bay?
What did we do wrong?
And how can we fix it?
So what'd we find,
boss?
A lot of lot of
water.
But no green.
No green water?
No.
We had everything in position.
We thought everything was gonna
go well, and it beat us.
It's that simple.
There's-there's no other way to
categorize it.
It beat us.
The island won again.
The island won again.
Yep.
After seeing
extraordinary evidence linking
the chapel at Rennes-le-Château
with one of the theories
concerning the Oak Island Money
Pit, Marty and Alex Lagina,
along with author and researcher
Kathleen McGowan, have traveled
to the medieval town of
Alet-les-Bains, seven miles
north of Rennes-le-Château, in
search of additional
information.
These ruins here
Ah.
date back from
the ninth century.
It was an abbey that was built
here in the 800s, and it was
built on top of an ancient
temple.
What we know here from local
history is, the tradition says
that the most sacred treasures
of both the Christians and the
Jews were held secretly in this
abbey.
So it's believed that the
treasures were brought here.
We're not the only people who
believe that those treasures
were here.
The Nazis came here en masse in
the '40s, looking for the Ark of
the Covenant.
During World War
II, Adolf Hitler believed that
if the Ark of the Covenant
really existed and he could find
it, then he would have the most
powerful weapon in the world.
Believing the ark was at
Alet-les-Bains in France, the
Nazis occupied the town and,
according to some accounts,
began a major excavation there.
But could the simple reason they
never found the ark be that it
had already been moved to Oak
Island centuries ago?
And there's Tobi.
Hey!
I hope you haven't been waiting
long.
No, I only checked some
e-mails.
Aw, good.
Good to see you.
Good to see you.
Hi.
Hi, Tobi.
Good to see you again.
Bonjour.
Where are we?
We are here in the-the
old thermes of Alet-les-Bains.
And here you can see a very good
picture of the symbolism of the
village Alet-les-Bains.
Because you'll see on top, you
find a Templar cross.
There's coming a flash down from
the Templar cross, through angel
wings, into a handshake.
The Knights Templars had given
their knowledge, their wisdom,
from heaven, into a handshake.
A handshake is a secret sign of
the Freemasonry.
Freemasonry?
The worldwide society of
builders that can trace its
origins to the Knights Templar,
the Rosicrucians, and even the
Illuminati?
Ever since the search for
treasure on Oak Island began
more than 200 years ago,
Freemasons, from treasure
hunters Frederick Blair and M.R.
Chappell to Franklin D.
Roosevelt, have played an
important role.
In fact, prominent symbols of
Freemasonry like the letter
G, which stands for the Grand
Architect of the Universe, and
the triangle or pyramid, which
represents balance have been
found on the island.
Where does this
Freemasonry symbol take us?
For our purposes right now, this
leads us to Scotland, which is
where we need to go next.
Why Scotland?
Well, we're going
to Scotland because after the
persecution of the Templars in
France, they took refuge in
Scotland.
The treasure went from here to
Scotland.
There is an extraordinary
tradition of Freemasonry in
Scotland and also some very,
very solid connections that lead
us directly back to Oak Island.
Did the Knights
Templar really take the sacred
treasures they had rescued from
the Cathars first to Scotland
and then to Nova Scotia?
If so, this might explain why
there are so many connections
between Oak Island and the
Ancient Scottish Rite of
Freemasonry.
So Scotland's the
next level.
You ready?
Yes, let's go.
Let's go.
Before we get hit by lightning.
Well, I suppose, Dave,
you want to know why you're up
so early, right?
Yeah.
I mean, it's
still freakin' dark out.
It's the start of a
new day on Oak Island, and Rick
Lagina has asked Dave
Blankenship and Charles
Barkhouse to join him in the war
room for an early morning
conference call.
They will be speaking with Marty
and Alex, who are still in
France.
Hey, guys.
How's it going?
Morning.
Bonjour.
Okay.
Whose brilliant idea was this
anyway?
It's still (bleep) dark here.
I should be horizontal.
I ain't getting
horizontal with you.
How you guys doing?
You been, uh, making progress
there?
We did the dye test.
All right, so what
happened with the dye test?
It's Oak Island.
I'll preface it like that.
Bottom line: it did not work.
So what happened?
We saw literally
nothing, no way to pinpoint any
of the supposed exit areas.
We got no results.
I don't know what to do about
that.
It's like Edison said.
When they asked him, "Don't you
feel bad you've you haven't
been able to make a lightbulb
work?"
And he said, "What do you mean?
I've not failed.
I found 462 things that don't
work."
And that
And he's right.
That-that matters.
Well, that's disappointing about
the dye.
You know, even-even
though we it's one of the few
times where failure on Oak
Island leads-leads us somewhere.
Look, we need to get back into
10-X.
10-X might lead us to the Money
Pit.
I like the idea of
getting a diver to go down
there.
That's fine.
You know what, look, if that
gets us to what to an answer,
I'm all for it.
All right.
Okay.
Good.
So, we're-we're we finished
up here in France.
But here's the deal, this has
been really, really cool, okay?
This is great.
The history here is compelling.
I mean, we're chasing something
here that is intriguing and a
little bit more dramatic than I
first thought when we bought an
island off the coast of Nova
Scotia.
I'm quite impressed
that you're impressed.
There clearly was
treasure here, multiple ones.
Yeah.
The ties to Oak Island
are here.
Supposedly, according to
Kathleen, it all comes together
in Scotland.
The information that
you currently possess really
does lead us there?
We want to have a
look, and I don't
I don't
want to do this without you
guys.
We need the team, put it that
way.
So you need to come.
What do you say?
Get thee to Scotland.
It's exciting because
I'm always chasing after him to
tell him good news or to tell
him, "Hey, you know, this is
interesting.
Let's look at this.
Let's do this."
Now he's calling me and saying,
So heck, yes.
Absolutely.
I'm on a plane.
You know, I wish Rick
had come on the whole trip.
Alex and I were seeing these
really neat things and exciting
things and intriguing things and
old structures, and I thought,
you know, when we go to
Scotland, if this is really
gonna come together, he needs to
be there.
We're in.
One in, all in.
Once in, forever in.
See you there.
That's all I got.
Okay.
We will be there.
We'll be there.
Let's go to
Scotland.
For Rick and Marty
Lagina, this week has been both
frustrating and encouraging.
Even though the dye test failed
to prove the existence of
man-made flood tunnels, the
brothers might still be on the
verge of another incredible
breakthrough, because they might
not only discover where the
treasure is but what it is and
who buried it.
A quest that has lasted more
than 200 years and has already
claimed the lives of six men
might very soon be over.
That is, if the Laginas can
avoid the curse that says seven
must die.
Next time on The Curse of Oak
Island
We're gonna see here in
Scotland proof that the treasure
went to Oak Island.
We need to connect this
to Oak Island.
Prince Henry
Sinclair in 1398 sailed to the
New World.
That will
ultimately lead to the finding
of the treasure.
It's time to connect the dots.
X marks the spot.
There's a tunnel
here, Jack.
Yeah.
I'm saying dig here.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Tonight on The
Curse of Oak Island
And in order to dig in
the Money Pit, we have to shut
off all the flood tunnels.
Start it up, Rick!
And maybe this dye test
will lead us in that direction.
We're here in the
South of France, and we're
really trying to dig back to
find the roots of this.
If you were going to look for
the treasure of the Knights
Templar
I would start in
Oak Island.
It's right in front
of you right now.
I found something.
I'm excited.
There is an island
in the North Atlantic where men
have been looking for treasure
for more than 200 years.
So far, they have uncovered
booby-trapped flood tunnels,
carved stones with strange
symbols, 17th century Spanish
coins, and evidence of a wooden
vault covered in concrete.
Six men have lost their
lives trying to solve the
mystery.
And according to legend, one
more will have to die before
the treasure can be found.
Over the last few
weeks, Rick and Marty Lagina,
along with their partners, have
made astonishing progress on Oak
Island.
Rick, I've got a
question to ask you.
Do I have to pay for this trip?
With information, yes.
After locating the
original Money Pit, and then
drilling to a depth of 142 feet,
the team obtained two core
samples.
Concrete and then
wood.
That's the description.
That's what they found
in the top of the vault.
Core samples which,
amazingly, match the historical
descriptions of a mysterious
seven-foot tall wooden vault,
first reported by treasure
hunter William Chappell in 1897.
But although finding the
so-called Chappell vault
represents an enormous
breakthrough, the Laginas now
face an even bigger problem: how
to get to it.
For the past two centuries,
every attempt to drill below 90
feet has encountered intense
flooding, long believed to be
the result of a network of
elaborate booby-trapped flood
tunnels that run deep
underground.
In order to-to dig in
the Money Pit, we have to shut
off all the flood tunnels, and
right now, we're only certain of
two.
We need to make certain there
aren't any others.
Hey, Dan!
You gonna catch us some supper,
mate?
Might, if you like
mackerel.
Today, with the
help of Dan and Dave
Blankenship, Rick Lagina and
and Divemaster Tony Sampson are
scouting the possible locations
where the flood tunnels are
believed to enter Oak Island.
The supposed five
drains.
Right.
But that was never
ascertained that it was only
five?
Hard to say, because
if you want to find-find that
out, you got to do more testing,
you know.
Right.
In 1850, a team of
treasure hunters claimed they
found evidence of five stone box
drains in Smith's Cove on the
eastern side of the island.
According to reports, the drains
were designed to feed seawater
into the tunnels, which, in
turn, would undermine all
attempts to excavate the Money
Pit.
We have to shut off
the water before we can do the
dig.
I, specifically, am interested
in if there's another flood
tunnel system, undisturbed.
This whole island is about
information.
Get enough information, and
maybe we can solve it.
In 1988, Oak Island
residents Dan and Dave
Blankenship recreated a test
that was first conducted by
treasure hunter Frederick Blair
back in 1898.
The test involved pouring
non-toxic dye down one of the
flooded treasure shafts, and
then, trying to identify if and
where the dye might be seeping
out into the surrounding ocean.
The dye came out at Smith's
Cove at the island's south
shore, and at a third location
just north of Fred Nolan's
property.
I mean, look at how far
we are from Smith's Cove.
Yeah, I know, Rick.
I can't believe that
the flooding system is this
large.
Hey, I didn't dig it.
This lends credence
to what I said to you, Rick.
There's more than one flooding
system here.
Yeah.
There's several.
If there is a new flood
tunnel, that means that we could
possibly uncover those drains
and learn how these, that have
been disturbed significantly,
really function.
And maybe we could learn how to
stop the water into the Money
Pit.
Tony, why don't we head over to
South Shore and check out the
other place?
Okay.
For Rick Lagina and
other members of his team,
finding and sealing off the
so-called flood tunnels could be
the most important step in
solving the Oak Island mystery.
But there are some who believe
the answers lie not on Oak
Island but thousands of miles
away and far back in time.
While researching the history of
Oak Island, Marty Lagina's son,
Alex, has invited his father to
join him on a fact-finding trip
to Southern France.
I can see one thing.
I mean, it's spectacularly
beautiful, right?
KATHLEEN McGOWAN: There's
certainly treasure in the
landscape.
Joining them is
author and researcher Kathleen
McGowan, who claims she can
prove not only what the
treasure is but where it came
from.
For the first stop on their
journey, she has brought them to
see the medieval ruins at the
small town of Montsegur.
It is here, according to
McGowan, that the mystery of Oak
Island began more than 800 years
ago.
Phew!
That is impressive.
Wow.
This is the most
sacred land of the region.
You can see why they called it
Montsegur, which means "the
secure mountain."
Yes.
Because it was
deemed impregnable as a
fortress.
Montsegur was a
sacred place to the Cathar
people a sect of early
Christians who lived in this
region of Southern France in the
12th and early 13th centuries.
According to scholars, the
Cathars claimed to be able to
trace their origins all the way
back to the days of Jesus.
This is all about
the potential origins of what
you guys are actually looking
for.
There is an idea that the
Cathars had all of the most
sacred treasure in human history
right here in this place.
It includes the Holy Grail.
It includes the Ark of the
Covenant.
That's fascinating.
The Ark of the
Covenant and the Holy Grail?
Because many of their beliefs
were considered heretical to the
Catholic Church in Rome, the
Cathars were persecuted.
But there are some who believe,
not so much for their faith, as
for the sacred treasures that
they possessed.
So, this is a
monument to the Cathar people.
What happens in 1209, the Pope
declares a crusade against the
Cathar people, and begins to
massacre them by the tens of
thousands.
In 1244 AD, Pope
Innocent IV authorized a bloody
massacre of the Cathars, which
left approximately 500 of them
cornered atop a mountain inside
the fortress of Montsegur.
Tired, weak and with little food
left, most agreed to renounce
their faith and were allowed to
go free.
But in a surprise move, nearly
200 of the most devout Cathar
monks promised to surrender in
exchange for a two-week period
of truce.
The request was granted.
A night or perhaps
two nights prior to the
surrender, four Cathar men
escaped, taking all of the
Cathar treasure with them.
Wow.
According to
McGowan, the Cathars gave the
sacred objects in their
possession to members of the
Knights Templar in hopes the
ancient order of warrior monks
would keep them out of the hands
of their enemies.
The treasure is
moved into Templar territory.
Then, after that, the treasure
would have been taken out of
France, and secreted somewhere
where it's safe, to Oak Island.
Let's go up.
I thought I was a
pretty good student of history.
I knew nothing of the Cathars.
I can believe that they were
sheltering some great knowledge
or great treasure.
Almost there.
Well, this is it, huh?
This is.
This would have been the main
part of the castle.
It's been rebuilt since the
Cathars were here.
Mm-hmm.
KATHLEEN Awfully small to
hold 500 people.
Well, yeah, I was going
to say, it looks a little
It does.
It does.
It's a lot smaller than
it looks.
So what I'm going
to show you is that this is
where the treasure came and
went through this pathway
here.
Those last two weeks, when the
Cathars were all in here, they
took the treasure down the
mountain on a pulley system, and
landing safely in Templar hands.
I'm standing at the
top of Montsegur.
Quite a story.
In a spot that was for sure the
last stand of a people.
And these people lowered
something down to people waiting
below to secret it away.
That was intriguing.
Why were they so viciously
attacked?
And what did they have?
Did it leave and maybe go to
North America?
We got to find those things out
yet we don't know.
Who'd have guessed that a couple
of young boys' fascination with
an island off of Nova Scotia
would have led here?
It feels like a long ways away
right now.
Start it up, Rick.
17 feet, David.
How are we looking?
Okay, Tony, right about
here.
Cut it here.
Okay, mate.
Back on Oak Island,
Rick Lagina along with Dave
and Dan Blankenship and
Divemaster Tony Sampson are
at the island's south shore to
scout another area for an
upcoming dye test.
So it's right off of
here?
Yep.
Where the ice holes
were.
There was four of
'em, uh, initially.
First this way here,
here, there and there?
Yep.
In the winter of
1980, Dan Blankenship was
overseeing a pumping operation
in the Money Pit when he noticed
four large circular holes in the
frozen bay off the island's
southern shore.
These same so-called ice holes
appeared again in 1987,
convincing Dan that he had
discovered at least one of the
places where the water that
flooded both 10-X and the Money
Pit was coming from.
It's awful hard to
comprehend that these tunnels or
whatever they were that was
keeping 'em there was air
bubbles, like I say, coming
up and it's awful hard to
explain why they're out in 12,
13 foot of water.
But there that's where they
were.
Well, Dan, I-I really
would like to see one of those
box drains undisturbed so we
can see for ourselves and maybe,
just maybe, this dye test will
lead us in that direction.
I'd love to see one, and to find
that would be pretty
significant.
As Rick Lagina
prepares to conduct the dye
test, his brother Marty and
nephew Alex
Which way?
This way.
Yeah, where to?
have journeyed
to Rennes-le-Château in Southern
France with author and
researcher Kathleen McGowan.
You know, if you're
gonna have a place steeped in
tradition and secret legends and
things, you know, this is where
you would have situated it,
right?
Absolutely.
Which I guess is what
they did.
Kathleen is
convinced that before sacred
religious artifacts like the Ark
of the Covenant and the Holy
Grail made their way to Oak
Island, they were hidden here by
members of the Knights Templar.
This village is
arguably the most enigmatic, uh,
mysterious place in France.
Um, it's known as the village of
mystery.
There are little symbols
everywhere in Rennes-le-Château.
As you'll see right here, the
house we're about to go into,
there's an iron Templar cross
over the door.
Oh, yes.
And that is because
we are about to enter into a
Templar household.
Hello, hello.
Hello, Tobi.
Hi, Kathleen.
Nice to see you.
Oh, lovely to see
you.
Bonjour.
My name is Marty.
Nice to meet you.
Tobi.
Tobi.
Tobi, I'm Alex Lagina.
Nice to meet you.
I'm Tobi.
So, may I introduce you?
Yes.
Come.
For decades,
researchers studying the Oak
Island mystery have been struck
by mounting evidence that
members of the Knights Templar
visited the island as early as
the 14th century nearly 100
years before Christopher
Columbus is credited with
discovering the so-called "New
World."
If such a connection could be
proven, it would lend credence
to the many legends which
suggest that the Ark of the
Covenant and even the Holy Grail
are among the sacred treasures
buried on Oak Island.
Tobi, being a 21st
century Templar and a Templar
historian, is really the man who
can answer a lot of the
questions that you guys have
Mm-hmm.
about how the
Templars relate to Oak Island.
I-I don't know how
where to start.
I mean, you know.
You are a Knight Templar.
You are a
It's amazing, isn't
it?
I had no idea.
That-That is amazing.
And-And Tobi, that's
for sure, right there was a
treasure, it's never been
found those are sure things?
There's
That's for
There's no
speculation?
Mm-hmm.
That sounds right.
Philip IV
otherwise known as Philip the
Fair ruled France from 1285
to 1314.
He was a ruthless and ambitious
monarch who, due to mounting
debts, desired to possess the
wealth of both French Jews and
the Knights Templar.
On Friday, October 13, 1307,
Philip ordered the arrest of the
Templars and burned many of them
at the stake.
I still don't see how
it connects to Oak Island.
Wait, wait, wait a
second did you say there were
Templar tombs on Oak Island?
Right.
There is a rock at the
center of the cross that
Nolan
You know, the-the
stone cross?
Mm-hmm.
At the center there
was no rock, so they dug, and
buried just below the surface
there is a rock, and it has a
what's been described as a
sword.
A possible Templar
Tomb on Oak Island?
In 1981, while surveying his Oak
Island property, treasure hunter
Fred Nolan discovered five
large, cone-shaped boulders that
formed a gigantic, perfectly
symmetrical cross.
After digging in the center,
several feet down, Nolan
unearthed a sixth boulder with
what appeared to be a human face
and the image of a sword carved
into it.
These boulders, now known as
Nolan's Cross, could be the
pivotal evidence that the
Knights Templar buried something
extraordinary on Oak Island.
If you were gonna look
for the treasure of the Knights
Templar right now, today you
would look on Oak Island?
Today is an
important day on Oak Island.
This is the day Rick Lagina
hopes he will discover the
location of what many believe to
be man-made flood tunnels that
have prevented the Money Pit
from being excavated.
If successful, Rick and the team
will then be able to dam up the
tunnels and then begin digging
142 feet down to the mysterious
wooden vault they discovered a
few days ago.
You get that pump
started yet?
Not yet.
Let's have a little conversation
first, figure out what
exactly what we're doing.
You're gonna turn the
key on, then you're gonna start
it up, then you're gonna pull.
Everybody's got to keep
their heads in the game today,
because we're only gonna have
one shot at this.
This really is a delicate dance,
if you will.
We need assets in the air, we
need assets on the ground, we
need someone to monitor the pump
in 10-X, we need people in
boats.
In order to monitor
the areas where the dye may be
found seeping into the ocean,
Rick has chartered a helicopter
from a company in Halifax.
On his direction, the teams
stationed in boats will mark any
areas where dye emerges with
special buoys.
You're gonna man the
pumps.
You and Jack are gonna be in one
boat.
You're gonna be on South Shore.
Okay?
Tony, you got the fast boat.
The hope is there's maybe a new
flood system, undisturbed.
Everybody keep their heads in
the game, everybody watch.
Everybody knows what we're
looking for.
Eyes on target and-and we're
off.
She good?
Good.
Start it up, Rick.
The three-inch pump
Rick has set up will force more
than 300 gallons of water per
minute into 10-X.
But based on dye tests
conducted in the past, it could
still take several hours for the
dye to work its way through the
so-called flood tunnels and seep
into the ocean.
Tell me if it's okay.
We good?
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
It's going quick.
Where do you think it's gonna
come up at?
Well, I know it's gonna
come up out four, three places
here and three places on this
side.
You think it's still
connected in Smith's Cove?
Yep, yeah.
Nothing has changed, Jack, since
the last time we did this.
Rick's hoping there's a third
one over on that side, but
If you find it, then
pretty much you can
reverse-engineer it, which might
give you an idea to how these
were made as well.
True.
I didn't know this was
a sterile operation, you needed
rubber gloves on.
For the test, Rick
is using a nontoxic bright green
dye that can color 120,000
gallons of water per pound.
What color is that?
Yellow green.
The real unknown, of
course, is when is the dye
coming out?
That's the real unknown.
As long as everybody's in
position, I think we'll be fine.
But you know, will some
unknown factor enter into the
equation?
Probably.
It's Oak Island.
So, we're about to
enter the most amazing church
I've ever been in, which is the
church here in
Rennes-le-Château.
There are some clues here that
point to Oak Island.
In their search for
evidence that the treasures of
the Knights Templar may be
buried on Oak Island, Marty and
Alex Lagina have arranged to
visit the legendary church at
Rennes-le-Château.
When was this church
built?
The church had
been built about 800 after
Christ.
It had been used as a chapel for
the castle.
And later dedicated to Mary
Magdalene and used as a church
for the village of
Rennes-le-Château.
For decades, the
church at Rennes-le-Château has
been the focus of intense
mystery and speculation.
There are even many who believe
it marks the resting place of
St. Mary Magdalene an early
follower of Jesus of Nazareth.
If, as Tobi and Kathleen
believe, the treasures of the
Knights Templar were once hidden
in Rennes-le-Château and
eventually moved across the
ocean to Oak Island, could there
be evidence in the church to
prove their theory?
There are no
accidents in this church.
Every inch of it is decorated
with a very specific purpose.
And some of that decoration, I
believe, pertains to Oak Island
and pertains to taking things to
the West.
One of those elements here is
the inclusion of corn in this
statue of John the Baptist
baptizing Jesus.
Corn?
A large-grain plant native to
North America?
Why would a statue depicting
Jesus' baptism feature a plant
that was not known in Europe
until the late 15th century?
So this corn is
obviously significant because,
I mean, corn is not indigenous
to this region.
It would not have been around
here.
And certainly not at the time
that this is depicting.
Absolutely.
Everything about it is
anomalous.
There certainly would have been
no reason for there to have been
corn included in a baptismal
statue that was supposed to
represent the holy land in the
first century.
And this points, at the
end, westward to Oak Island.
But you know what,
that's kind of interesting.
Are you familiar with the stone
that was found in the Money Pit?
That 90-foot stone with the
inscription on it?
We just had a conversation with
a guy who thinks he found an
alternate translation to it,
and it involves corn.
Really?
Yeah.
So that's a
little interesting there.
Yeah.
What I'm
going to show you today is a
very advanced cipher, beyond
reasonable doubt.
During a recent
visit to Oak Island, Swedish
researcher Daniel Ronnstam
presented Rick, Marty and the
team with his theory that the
carved symbols on the so-called
90-foot stone indicated a dual
cipher.
Using an ingenious decoding
method, Ronnstam believes that
the stone was meant to provide
instructions for shutting off
the ocean water that floods the
Money Pit and that the method
involves the use of corn.
With its high absorbency, a dry
grain, like corn, would swell
and seal up any booby-trapped
flood tunnels.
Could the inclusion of corn in
this statue of Jesus' baptism
really be a deliberate clue, not
only linking Oak Island to the
Cathar treasure, but also
showing how to retrieve it?
So the church in
Rennes-le-Château is certainly
one of the oddest Catholic
churches I've ever been in, and
I've been in quite a lot of
Catholic churches.
So it's a very strange church,
and I think these things go
deeper than our observations.
I could keep you in
this church all day, or for the
next three days, because there's
so much to see, but there's more
out there.
Yes.
All right, let's
go.
Back on Oak Island,
the dye test is well underway.
While Rick Lagina looks for
evidence from the air
diver Tony Sampson and veteran
treasure hunter Dan Henskee,
will watch Smith's Cove and
Joudrey's Cove on the northeast
side of the island.
Okay, Dan, I think
we'll just, um, we'll hang out
in this area, see if we can see
anything come up, until we hear
from the guys on the other side,
okay?
On the south shore,
Charles Barkhouse and Jack
Begley are keeping an eye on the
area where, in 1980, Dan
Blankenship reported seeing a
series of so-called "ice holes."
Where's the search area
in your mind, Charles?
I only have a rough idea.
Although the bright
green dye has been pumped down
10-X for two hours now, no sign
of it has appeared in the ocean.
We have everything in
position, and there's still that
window, you know two more
hours, give or take and we're
still hopeful.
You think they saw
any dye on Smith's Cove?
I sure hope so.
I wonder if they've
seen anything on the other side
of the island.
I didn't think it'd
take so long, but
I had no idea.
Yeah.
I'm hoping that, uh,
since the day is not over, we
may still get lucky.
As the day moved on and
we weren't seeing dye, I think a
little bit of frustration crept
in.
Doesn't look like we've
seen anything else come up here.
Nobody knows what's
going on underground there, and,
uh, channels can open up and
channels can get closed off.
I thought, okay, we
need something, we need
something here.
No, man, we don't
see a thing out here at all.
No dye out there.
Then Fred had an idea
that maybe if we went up higher,
we would get a different
perspective.
And as we were coming around the
island, we both looked down and
went, "Wait a minute!"
What's that down there?
You can see, it looks like
green, uh, green coming out of
there.
Suddenly, Rick
Lagina spots what appears to be
a large patch of green water
just off Smith's Cove.
I saw green in the
water there, so I was excited.
You know, I was in a rush to get
Tony over there.
There!
Right there!
Is it possible that
dye has started to emerge from
one of the so-called flood
tunnels?
While conducting
a dye test at Smith's Cove, Rick
Lagina has spotted a large patch
of green in the water.
How is that for
location, buddy?
If the team can
pinpoint the exact area where
the dye is flowing out, they
believe they can prevent ocean
water from flooding not only
10-X but also the Money Pit.
We see a slight
green greenish tinge to our
port side.
Copy?
I was excited, but then
Fred said, "Look, there's a
sandbar there.
There's-there's seaweed growing
in there.
And-and at
Then at that
point, typical of Oak Island,
you know, okay, we're seeing it
and then the falloff to reality.
The reality was it was actually,
uh, seaweed.
Unfortunately, now
there is no sign of
phosphorescent green dye
anywhere.
All we needed was for
Oak Island to behave kindly for
one time, just give us a win.
But didn't happen.
With daylight
waning and the helicopter
running low on fuel, Rick Lagina
is forced to call an end to the
day's operation.
Okay.
Grab a seat, my friend.
Yeah, and the rope.
And the rope.
It was troubling
because we had followed the
regimen that had achieved
success in the past.
So it begets several questions.
Where did the water go?
Why didn't we see dye out in the
bay?
What did we do wrong?
And how can we fix it?
So what'd we find,
boss?
A lot of lot of
water.
But no green.
No green water?
No.
We had everything in position.
We thought everything was gonna
go well, and it beat us.
It's that simple.
There's-there's no other way to
categorize it.
It beat us.
The island won again.
The island won again.
Yep.
After seeing
extraordinary evidence linking
the chapel at Rennes-le-Château
with one of the theories
concerning the Oak Island Money
Pit, Marty and Alex Lagina,
along with author and researcher
Kathleen McGowan, have traveled
to the medieval town of
Alet-les-Bains, seven miles
north of Rennes-le-Château, in
search of additional
information.
These ruins here
Ah.
date back from
the ninth century.
It was an abbey that was built
here in the 800s, and it was
built on top of an ancient
temple.
What we know here from local
history is, the tradition says
that the most sacred treasures
of both the Christians and the
Jews were held secretly in this
abbey.
So it's believed that the
treasures were brought here.
We're not the only people who
believe that those treasures
were here.
The Nazis came here en masse in
the '40s, looking for the Ark of
the Covenant.
During World War
II, Adolf Hitler believed that
if the Ark of the Covenant
really existed and he could find
it, then he would have the most
powerful weapon in the world.
Believing the ark was at
Alet-les-Bains in France, the
Nazis occupied the town and,
according to some accounts,
began a major excavation there.
But could the simple reason they
never found the ark be that it
had already been moved to Oak
Island centuries ago?
And there's Tobi.
Hey!
I hope you haven't been waiting
long.
No, I only checked some
e-mails.
Aw, good.
Good to see you.
Good to see you.
Hi.
Hi, Tobi.
Good to see you again.
Bonjour.
Where are we?
We are here in the-the
old thermes of Alet-les-Bains.
And here you can see a very good
picture of the symbolism of the
village Alet-les-Bains.
Because you'll see on top, you
find a Templar cross.
There's coming a flash down from
the Templar cross, through angel
wings, into a handshake.
The Knights Templars had given
their knowledge, their wisdom,
from heaven, into a handshake.
A handshake is a secret sign of
the Freemasonry.
Freemasonry?
The worldwide society of
builders that can trace its
origins to the Knights Templar,
the Rosicrucians, and even the
Illuminati?
Ever since the search for
treasure on Oak Island began
more than 200 years ago,
Freemasons, from treasure
hunters Frederick Blair and M.R.
Chappell to Franklin D.
Roosevelt, have played an
important role.
In fact, prominent symbols of
Freemasonry like the letter
G, which stands for the Grand
Architect of the Universe, and
the triangle or pyramid, which
represents balance have been
found on the island.
Where does this
Freemasonry symbol take us?
For our purposes right now, this
leads us to Scotland, which is
where we need to go next.
Why Scotland?
Well, we're going
to Scotland because after the
persecution of the Templars in
France, they took refuge in
Scotland.
The treasure went from here to
Scotland.
There is an extraordinary
tradition of Freemasonry in
Scotland and also some very,
very solid connections that lead
us directly back to Oak Island.
Did the Knights
Templar really take the sacred
treasures they had rescued from
the Cathars first to Scotland
and then to Nova Scotia?
If so, this might explain why
there are so many connections
between Oak Island and the
Ancient Scottish Rite of
Freemasonry.
So Scotland's the
next level.
You ready?
Yes, let's go.
Let's go.
Before we get hit by lightning.
Well, I suppose, Dave,
you want to know why you're up
so early, right?
Yeah.
I mean, it's
still freakin' dark out.
It's the start of a
new day on Oak Island, and Rick
Lagina has asked Dave
Blankenship and Charles
Barkhouse to join him in the war
room for an early morning
conference call.
They will be speaking with Marty
and Alex, who are still in
France.
Hey, guys.
How's it going?
Morning.
Bonjour.
Okay.
Whose brilliant idea was this
anyway?
It's still (bleep) dark here.
I should be horizontal.
I ain't getting
horizontal with you.
How you guys doing?
You been, uh, making progress
there?
We did the dye test.
All right, so what
happened with the dye test?
It's Oak Island.
I'll preface it like that.
Bottom line: it did not work.
So what happened?
We saw literally
nothing, no way to pinpoint any
of the supposed exit areas.
We got no results.
I don't know what to do about
that.
It's like Edison said.
When they asked him, "Don't you
feel bad you've you haven't
been able to make a lightbulb
work?"
And he said, "What do you mean?
I've not failed.
I found 462 things that don't
work."
And that
And he's right.
That-that matters.
Well, that's disappointing about
the dye.
You know, even-even
though we it's one of the few
times where failure on Oak
Island leads-leads us somewhere.
Look, we need to get back into
10-X.
10-X might lead us to the Money
Pit.
I like the idea of
getting a diver to go down
there.
That's fine.
You know what, look, if that
gets us to what to an answer,
I'm all for it.
All right.
Okay.
Good.
So, we're-we're we finished
up here in France.
But here's the deal, this has
been really, really cool, okay?
This is great.
The history here is compelling.
I mean, we're chasing something
here that is intriguing and a
little bit more dramatic than I
first thought when we bought an
island off the coast of Nova
Scotia.
I'm quite impressed
that you're impressed.
There clearly was
treasure here, multiple ones.
Yeah.
The ties to Oak Island
are here.
Supposedly, according to
Kathleen, it all comes together
in Scotland.
The information that
you currently possess really
does lead us there?
We want to have a
look, and I don't
I don't
want to do this without you
guys.
We need the team, put it that
way.
So you need to come.
What do you say?
Get thee to Scotland.
It's exciting because
I'm always chasing after him to
tell him good news or to tell
him, "Hey, you know, this is
interesting.
Let's look at this.
Let's do this."
Now he's calling me and saying,
So heck, yes.
Absolutely.
I'm on a plane.
You know, I wish Rick
had come on the whole trip.
Alex and I were seeing these
really neat things and exciting
things and intriguing things and
old structures, and I thought,
you know, when we go to
Scotland, if this is really
gonna come together, he needs to
be there.
We're in.
One in, all in.
Once in, forever in.
See you there.
That's all I got.
Okay.
We will be there.
We'll be there.
Let's go to
Scotland.
For Rick and Marty
Lagina, this week has been both
frustrating and encouraging.
Even though the dye test failed
to prove the existence of
man-made flood tunnels, the
brothers might still be on the
verge of another incredible
breakthrough, because they might
not only discover where the
treasure is but what it is and
who buried it.
A quest that has lasted more
than 200 years and has already
claimed the lives of six men
might very soon be over.
That is, if the Laginas can
avoid the curse that says seven
must die.
Next time on The Curse of Oak
Island
We're gonna see here in
Scotland proof that the treasure
went to Oak Island.
We need to connect this
to Oak Island.
Prince Henry
Sinclair in 1398 sailed to the
New World.
That will
ultimately lead to the finding
of the treasure.
It's time to connect the dots.
X marks the spot.
There's a tunnel
here, Jack.
Yeah.
I'm saying dig here.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.