STEVE GUPTILL: All right, guys.
We’re off in this direction about 280 feet.
I’m guessing it’s about in the middle of the Boulderless Beach.

NARRATOR: After locating one of the so-called anchor stones noted on a 14th-century French map, which theorist Erin Helton believes will help lead to the Oak Island Treasure Vault.
It is a dramatic end to the beach, to the boulders, isn’t it?

NARRATOR: Marty Lagina and his son Alex, along with Jack Begley, metal detection expert Gary Drayton, and surveyor Steve Guptill, are searching for the second anchor stone believed to be located along the island’s northern shore.

We’re about 60 feet out.
At least we’re getting close.
It’s just in here, guys.

There’s the stone.
That’s it?

STEVE GUPTILL: That’s it.
This is her north anchor.

ALEX LAGINA: Wow.
Look at that.

ALEX LAGINA: I mean, that’s pretty impressive.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think you guys should come take a look.

This is a big rock.
What is that?

STEVE GUPTILL: There is something that looks like a T or a cross on it at the top.

ALEX LAGINA: Really?
But that looks like it could be natural, but I don’t know.

ALEX LAGINA: Yeah.
What do you think, Alex?
Yes or no?

ALEX LAGINA: I don’t know.
It looks like it’s most likely natural, but it also does kind of look a little bit like the boat from the boat stone.

Oh, really?
It looks a bit like the boat.

NARRATOR: A possible man-made carving similar to the one found on the mysterious so-called boat stone.
Located in Westford, Massachusetts, the boat stone is a 250-pound boulder which contains what many believe are 14th-century carvings of a ship, an ancient crossbow arrow, and the numerals 184.

The boat represents a coastal range.
Follow the coast.

NARRATOR: Five years ago, Oak Island theorist Robert Markus proposed that the inscriptions on the boat stone were actually the beginnings of a treasure map, one that would lead to Oak Island.

This is the starting point.
I believe the Templars have carved this.

NARRATOR: According to Robert Markus’s research, the carvings on the boat stone were made by the Scottish Templar knight Henry Sinclair, who many believe sailed to Oak Island in 1398 to hide a vast treasure which included the Ark of the Covenant and the Golden Menorah from King Solomon’s Temple.

Is it possible that this boulder, believed to represent one of the anchors on a possible 14th-century Templar map, could also somehow be connected to the legendary voyage of Prince Henry Sinclair?

But this is the one Erin said would be here?

STEVE GUPTILL: She did.
Yeah.
She sees both of them in the LiDAR data.

GARY DRAYTON: Well, so two for two.

STEVE GUPTILL: She’s two for two.
Yeah.

If you compare the stone to the southern anchor rock, they’re pretty much the same size and shape and the same sort of rock.

JACK BEGLEY: It has a very similar break to the last one, you know the gouge that was taken out of it.

MARTY LAGINA: In size, I mean—

ALEX LAGINA: It’s a little smaller.

MARTY LAGINA: No, I’d say that’s virtually identical.

Yeah.
I’m anxious to see what Erin has in store for us next and how finding these boulders will help lead to the treasure chamber, because that’s what it’s all about.

MARTY LAGINA: The anchor stone.
Look for the anchor stone.

Yeah.
I don’t know how you would ever find it, though.

GARY DRAYTON: Right on the edge of the Boulderless Beach as well.

MARTY LAGINA: Right.
If you were looking at this from sea.

GARY DRAYTON: Yeah.
If you’d come in from open water, just come down here and hopefully see that rock.

And it shares something in common with the other stone at the side of the swamp.
It’s in an area where you could tie to it if it was some kind of anchor.

They’re certainly similar in size, shape, and have similar markings on them.
But there’d be no way to know this from any other boulder on the beach.

If this really is significant, there’s got to be another way to identify it.

MARTY LAGINA: Absolutely.

All right, well, this has been a successful mission.
Yeah.
But for now, I think we’re done.

All right.
We found what we were looking for.

GARY DRAYTON: Yeah.
That is fantastic.

MARTY LAGINA: Way to go, guys.

ERIN HELTON: After we’ve established the Money Pit area, we’ll also be able to predict an actual location for the vault.

NARRATOR: In the war room, geographic information system specialist Erin Helton has just presented Rick, Marty, Craig, and the Oak Island team with an astonishing theory.
A theory suggesting that the so-called anchor points on a possible 14th-century Templar map of Oak Island could hold the key to revealing the true location of the Money Pit treasure vault.

ERIN HELTON: We’re going to go back to our maps here.
I found this map of Oak Island published in Popular Science, June 1939.

One thing I found really exciting was discovering that it not only has the two drilled stones, but it also has all of these other boulders marked with measurements indicated.

And with the anchor, we can triangulate the location of the Money Pit.

Now we’re going to zoom in here.
The boulder south of the Money Pit on this map I’m designating 18A.
We have 15A along the east side of the swamp.
Another feature, 16A, is a suspected boulder on the coastline.

If we take the location of 15A and run a line up to our East Meridian line boulder 20A in Smith’s Cove, run a line from 16A on the edge of the beach, and draw a circle from the West Anchor out to 18A just south of the Money Pit location, all three intersect where I think the Money Pit is located.

I’m a big fan of corroborating independent data sources, so I asked for the center point for your caisson of choice, whatever caisson you currently feel is most representative of your Money Pit.

ERIN HELTON: This lines up within three feet of my proposed Money Pit location.

Look at all the wood.
Wow.
That is spectacular.

NARRATOR: Last year the team excavated an eight-foot-wide steel-caged shaft known as RF-1, where they found incredible evidence suggesting they could be close to locating the original Money Pit.

Is it possible that Erin Helton, using the believed 14th-century map as a baseline for her theory, has just found more evidence that the Oak Island team was in fact mere feet from locating the fabled treasure?

Erin, Steve, I’ve got a question.

Do you want me to check all those stones?

ERIN HELTON: If you could lock in the West Anchor and North Anchor, if we could get those confirmed, that would be great.

Sure.

ERIN HELTON: I’m curious to see how large they are, because the smaller the boulder is, the more precise all the other alignments coming out from it would be.

Confirming these suspected boulders, I think we can finally put together an actual location for the vault.

Let’s get her that data and see what she comes up with.

Certainly will.

So Erin, we want to say thank you, and we look forward to your continued interest in this subject.

Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, everybody.
Thanks, everybody.
Cheers.
To the hunt.

NARRATOR: In the war room, Rick, Marty, and their partners are meeting with area historian Doug Crowell.
Joining them on the phone is Knights Templar researcher Zena Halpern, who has just shared with them her recent discovery of two maps and a cipher which she believes could help solve the Oak Island mystery.

ZENA HALPERN: The map that’s dated in the upper right-hand corner seems to be dated 1179.
The Rhodon part, to me, it suggests New Ross.
And I think most people here are familiar with the idea that Henry Sinclair came over to Nova Scotia in 1398 and perhaps settled in the New Ross area.

NARRATOR: The town of New Ross in Nova Scotia is believed by some to have been the location of an ancient Templar fortress built in the late 1300s by Scottish Templar knight Prince Henry Sinclair after his journey to Oak Island.
But could it be that Sinclair’s reported journey occurred more than 200 years after the first Templars visited the area, and if so, might there be a connection between New Ross and Templar activity on Oak Island?

So we have your map that shows Nova Scotia, and we had a map that seems to be a French map of Oak Island.

This Oak Island map that you’re showing us seems to indicate that someone came here in 1347.

The hand-drawn map is clearly Oak Island, and there are several things named in French which have been translated for us.

One is called the basin, translated from French.
That clearly correlates to the swamp on the Nolan side of the island.

Also delineated is something called the marsh, and that would be the swamp proper.

There is also a reference to what’s called the dam, and it points to where Fred Nolan articulated to us last year that there was a log wall.

And then there’s something the map calls the oak, enter here, which points right about to where the Money Pit is.

And then we have two or three things that we don’t know anything about.
One’s called the anchors.
One’s called the valve.
And one’s called the hatch.

Where it says the hatch, in the [inaudible] family, there seem to be some stories about this hatch.

One of the uncles said basically there’s a hatch that you only have to sink a spade to find, and that once you do, don’t get lost down there.

RICK LAGINA: What?

I think we should try and find some way of verifying these documents.
I mean, Rick, don’t you want to go and dig up the hatch?

RICK LAGINA: No question about it.

Looking at these maps, you have a series of things that correlate perfectly with the island as we know it, and then you have things that we’ve never heard of.
So of course we want to search for them.

The story of this, I believe, is multilayered and very complex.
So I want to continue down this road, but there’s a lot more work to be done on it.

You know, I’m not sure that Zena’s research is going to lead to answers, but this whole place is all about rumor, conjecture, supposition, hope, belief.
And she has a theory which uniquely is backed up by documentation.
And I surely would regret not following up on this research.

Zena, we want to thank you for talking with us.
Thank you, Zena.
Yeah, bye-bye.
Thanks.
You’re very interesting.

Doug, thank you very much.

Yeah.
So this is an anomaly you located.

DAVE BLANKENSHIP: Yeah.
Yeah.
I found it when we were looking for a deer back here with [inaudible].

Really?

NARRATOR: After obtaining what is reported to be a centuries-old map of Oak Island, Rick, Marty, and their team are eager to investigate what Dave Blankenship has just described as a strange depression in the ground near his property.

I want to show you guys that we’re in the general area of the supposed hatch.
Here, let me show you in the back of the Yukon.
I can project it onto the French map that Zena gave us.

Okay.
Let’s look.

JACK BEGLEY: The approach I took was to try to fit the old French map that Zena gave us with new satellite imagery.
So I blew up the old French map, and it’s really close.

I want to show you guys how close it is and how much it lines up.

Let’s see how bad it’s off.
At least the top end of it follows the coastline the same, parallel.

Look at the top of that.
It follows it perfectly.
It’s just offset.

Yeah.
And we don’t know how much has eroded off the island since 1300.

This is probably as good as I’m going to get it for now.

DAVE BLANKENSHIP: Jack, yeah.

JACK BEGLEY: The thing is, it is in this general area right here.
Right underneath it is where your driveway meets the main road.
And this little thing down here is your house.

But right about here is our search area.

I don’t think we have a very good description of what the hatch is even supposed to look like, right?

Well, we don’t.
But that’s where it ties in.

David found an anomaly.

Yeah, a hole over here.

Right about where it should be.

JACK BEGLEY: This hatch lands kind of where David said the hole is.

DAVE BLANKENSHIP: Yeah.

JACK BEGLEY: It’s close enough.
Let’s go look at it.

Let’s go.

All right.
Well, make sure I’m going the right direction.

Where should I go in at, David?

DAVE BLANKENSHIP: Go in here by the pole.

Right here?

Yep.

Give him a wide berth.

Yeah, with that thing, you got that right.

Okay.
I think it’s clear enough.
We can get through here.

This.
Yeah.
I think this is it here.

Wow.
Holy smokes.

NARRATOR: Could the Oak Island team have just found the mysterious hatch that was indicated on Zena Halpern’s 14th-century map?
If so, what will it reveal, a back door into the Money Pit, or perhaps a gateway that leads directly to an incredible treasure?

That’s the oddest thing on this side of the island.

RICK LAGINA: My first thought was, that’s strange.

Yes, it is strange.

NARRATOR: On the western side of the island, Rick, Marty, and members of the team have invited area archaeologist Laird Niven to help in their investigation of a strange square-shaped hatch.
If the hatch can be identified as man-made and of ancient origin, then the brothers may have found another important clue to help them solve the Oak Island mystery.

It does seem like rocks have been removed.
It’s been cut in.

LAIRD NIVEN: That’s not natural.
And this is pretty loose filling.

Mm-hmm.

LAIRD NIVEN: It keeps going for a bit, you see.

So you think it goes off to the side?

At least for a little bit.

MARTY LAGINA: The thing we obviously want it to be is the entrance to a tunnel.
And there was some evidence of that.

He thought three of the sides were solid, but at least on one side, he thought it might go off somewhat.

RICK LAGINA: It warrants further investigation.

So where should we go?
Who should we notify?
How do we do this?

LAIRD NIVEN: Well, if I was to investigate it as an archaeologist, I’d get a permit and probably remove some of these small trees.

Right.

Is there any prohibition against just digging it out with a hand shovel?
I mean, we still want to follow the rules.

LAIRD NIVEN: Right.
I couldn’t do it without a permit.

I think this is a disclosure deal then.
We just tell whoever in the government.

Yeah.

MARTY LAGINA: Yeah.
We’re going to go ahead and disclose it to authorities.

So we have some permitting issues to work our way through before we dig over there.

NARRATOR: Rick and Marty’s decision to involve the Canadian government will cost them time, but will be beneficial to the process in the long run.
There are many who believe that Oak Island is a national treasure and quite possibly a sacred archaeological site.

Although two centuries of treasure hunting have seen the island dug up, bulldozed, and even detonated, the Laginas and their partners have been determined to take a more responsible and scientific approach.

All right.
I think we’ve done what we need to do here.
Thought we have a logical way to pursue it.

MARTY LAGINA: Right.
Thank you very much.

No problem at all.