The Curse of Oak Island: Rick Discovers a Stunning Set of Documents (Season 6) | History

[phone ringing]
Hey…
Hey, Martyr.
Hey, guys.

NARRATOR: [inaudible]
joins Rick Laginina
and the other members of the Island team in the war.

So, big brother, how’d your trip to New York?
Tell me.
I’ll tell you in one word.
I was stunned.
Wow.

NARRATOR: One week ago, he received the shocking news
that his close friend, researcher and author
Zenana Halpern, had passed.

[knocking on door]
Rick also learned that Zed
bequeathed to him the rest of her life’s work, including
a vast trove of books and documents, which seem
to connect the Oak Island mystery to activities involving
the Knights Templar as far back as the 12th century.

I’m just so thrilled that her life’s work—
it’s just going to stop, right?
I guarantee you, it’s not going to stop, Devin, J.
It’s not going to stop.
She wouldn’t allow it to stop, and we won’t do either.
Thank you, brother.
Yup.

The amount of material that Zena has written,
the width and breadth of the lady’s accomplishments
and research—it was stunning.
That is the word.
Stunning.

Is it tied to Oak Island?
I think we all have just a very
rudimentary understanding of the work
as it relates to Oak Is.
The information is somewhat disjointed.

Do you have the information with you?
You have it all?
I have some of it, but there were so much that
have to have it shipped.
The information will all come to Oak Island.

So, one of the things that was found
is an actual copy of the Cremona document.
And it’s a deposition by this English Templar knight.
It’s a description of a year-long voyage to the World,
what’s called Ont.

I know what this is.
This is at the core of
your mother’s research.

NARRATOR: While packing Zena’s collection of research,
Rick discovered a copy of what is known as the “Cra” document,
a collection of maps and journal passages reportedly authored by
the 12th century Templar knight Ralph de Sudel.
It describes not only de Sudel’s journey
to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem,
where he claimed to have recovered
priceless religious treasures including
the Ark of the Covenant,
but also a Templar voyage to the New World
in the year 1117,
more than three centuries before Christopher Columbus
made landfall in North America.

I don’t know if this is 100% accurate.
I don’t.
Right…
I do believe with 100% certainty
that it’s worth some commitment of ours
to try to come to an understanding
of whether not only is it relevant, but is it accurate?

Here’s my thought.
We’ve now come into possession of some remarkable research.
A lifetime’s worth of research.
Literally.

And to that end, I propose we establish a research center.
A place where we can gather information regarding our
pursuit of answers from the Oak Island mystery,
and commit ourselves to that endeavor.
I want to carry her work forward.
I do.

Once seen as research housed here,
it will foster the idea that the information hunt is, indeed, important.
I believe there’s a lot to glean from her research,
and who knows where those paths lead us.
I think the future of the research, Zenana’s legacy,
if you will, is in very good hands on Oak Island.

It sounds to me like the research center idea is good
because, you know, it’s going to take some real digging
to mess with this.
So keep going, keep digging,
all I can say, and see what—
try to separate out fact from fiction.

I’m going to make certain
that we follow up on this.

• Good job, you guys.
• Alright.
  See ya.
  See ya.
  Talk to you later.
  Bye.