The Curse of Oak Island: UNBELIEVABLE Knights Templar Discovery (Season 10)

Rick Lagina, Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse, and researcher Corey and Mole are traveling some 50 miles southwest to the city of Liverpool, Nova Scotia.

“I know we’re going to see some carvings on stones, so can you fill me in a little bit?”

“Well, we’re actually contacted by a gentleman by the name of Isaac Rayfuse, and he believes that these carvings just may pertain to what we’re doing on Oak Island.”

“Yeah, and I know Corey is quite excited to see them also.”

“I am. You know, they remind me of Fontana Arcada, and I think it’s incredibly exciting that it’s close to the island.”

“Okay, well, Steve, over the past three years…”

“Okay, let’s see what we can find.”

Corey and Mole have shared research and acted as a guide overseas for the team, revealing a number of possible connections between the Oak Island mystery and the Knights Templar, a Christian military order that some believe had sacred religious treasures in The Money Pit sometime between the 11th and 16th centuries.

“Yeah, look at this right there, it’s perfect.”

Some of Corey’s most compelling revelations were made one year ago in Portugal when he showed the team numerous stone carvings at 12th-century Templar strongholds, such as the Church of Punta Cana, that were exact matches to ones that have been found on Oak Island.

“The circle and the dot in the center of the cross, that’s one of our symbols on the Lee Cho Stone. This, to me, screams Knights Templar. This is it.”

“It’s odd.”

“Hey guys, how are you doing?”

Arriving at their destination, Rick, Charles, and Corey are greeted by local landowners Isaac Rayfuse and Nick Frailich.

“I just want to say, you know, thanks for inviting us because the point of all this is we’ve got a heck of a mystery on our hands. But according to these two gentlemen, you’ve got a little bit of a mystery of your own.”

“Yeah, we’re excited to show you. Why don’t you lead us on?”

“Yeah, we’ll take you down.”

“There’s information everywhere. My parents used to own a home just up through here, and we have to be wise enough to listen to people who may have an understanding of local artifacts that we currently do not understand. There’s still information, although that might be highly relevant to solving the mystery.”

“Yeah, just watch your step, guys.”

“Alright, so the first marking that we wanted to show you guys is over here.”

“Oh wow.”

“This one has been here for a very long time. The gentleman that showed me said that he had asked his father about it, and his father said when he was little, he asked his dad, and he said it had just been there forever.”

“We were told this might be a British Broadhead, but we don’t know. We just know it’s been here for a really long time.”

“As far back as the 14th century, the Broadhead symbol was a stylized representation of an arrowhead commonly stamped on objects to signify ownership by either the British government or British nobility.”

“So that would go back to like the founding of Liverpool, because Nova Scotia was an English territory at various times between the 16th and 18th centuries. Is it possible that this carving was simply made during one of those periods?”

“It doesn’t see how this comes, like that. Doesn’t the Broadhead mark come like that? You know what I mean, it comes to a point. Yeah, this melds into a point, whereas the Broadhead Arrow mark comes like that.”

“And in many cases, the Broadhead, you know, the middle leg will be longer than the two ones on the side. Right. And the other thing is, the Broadheads were put on everything basically that the king purchased. So it could be weapons, equipment, they put it on trees if they wanted to use them for ships, but never on rock.”

“I think that’s unlikely.”

“To me, this looks like what we call a gooseball in Europe. And if that’s what it is, that would be something because that is the mark of the Nations for the Knights Templar. In medieval Europe, many of them worked on the cathedrals and the great churches. So this, to me, is a gooseball.”

“You see them in churches all around the Mediterranean—Northern Portugal, Spain, Southern France, Italy, Sardinia. You will often find this mark on the cornerstone of confirmed Templar churches.”

“So it could be from a medieval cathedral builder. That’s pretty cool.”

A so-called Goose paw is a symbol depicting the webbing of a goose’s foot that was adopted by stonemasons, originally from the Holy Land, who aided the Templar order in constructing cathedrals across Europe between the 11th and 14th centuries.

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“And what do you think that would indicate? Why would they carve it there?”

“I’m a Templar. I come here, we have masons, we need to build stuff. Imagine you come here, you’re 30 guys in a boat, you know, you arrive here from the ocean, yeah, take a sloop, you know, take it up the shore there, and then put this definitely a deep enough harbor. Yeah, then put the symbol here to tell your friends that you were here, right?”

“So now you can see the carving quite clearly here. Over the past decade, Rick, Marty, Craig, and the team have investigated numerous sites in Nova Scotia featuring stone carvings believed by some to be connected to the Templar order.”

“These include the Overton Stone, located some 140 miles southwest of Oak Island.”

“What makes it Portuguese Templar? The shape of it, as well as at a site in New Ross, just 20 miles to the north of the island, where some believe the Templars constructed a fortress in the 14th century.”

“It’s incredible. What it may represent is it possible that the team has now found another carving that could help support the theory that the Knights Templar visited Nova Scotia and perhaps Oak Island many centuries ago?”

“So there are two things. One, this is certainly worth further investigation. We have something that’s carved by the human hand in a very unique place, and it may have codes or ciphers within it.”

“Yeah.”

“And two, just the hint of what it might represent. Right, you just said it could be someone who brought his experience creating cathedrals and Templar churches. Yeah, but I want to make certain. It needs research. It needs research. That is very cool.”

“So, did you say you had more carvings than this one?”

“Yeah, we do. We have some more carvings to show you.”

“Well, I can’t wait, man. Lead on.”

“Yeah, just watch your step, guys. Yep, I’ve got some good lighting on it right now.”

“Yeah, so this is it here.”

“Oh wow.”

“If you look on the underside, there’s a very distinct cross carved here, like a circle or something at the base of it.”

“Yeah, just below it, there’s a circle with a line that looks through it.”

“Okay, down here, you’ve got a half circle with a dot in the middle.”

“Oh yeah, and then here you’ve got this two definite branches on a line here and then some another piece that could be an X.”

“So I would say this is a Globus cruciger. That’s what they call it, the circle with the cross on top. It can mean a number of things. God, Jesus, really.”

“Dating back to the 5th century A.D., the Globus cruciger is a symbol featuring a cross setting above an orb or circle, representing Christianity’s dominion over the world.”

“But I’ll tell you something, I think this here, this was one of the markers in front of Arcada in Northern Portugal.”

“Rick and members of the team have found a carved symbol less than 50 miles from Oak Island matching one found at a medieval church in Fontarcada, Portugal, a church known to have been constructed by members of the Knights Templar.”

“And then if you remember, that might be a Mason’s mark. Now then maybe they belong together.”

“Yeah, there’s no question that Oak Island was not the singular obsession of people traveling from the Old World to the New World.”

“Very intricate.”

“So if there’s anything within the province that indicates pre-Columbian visitation to the New World, it’s of interest to us, and I think these carvings might represent that.”

“These are intriguing symbols. They may represent some very significant information. The symbols were used for centuries, right, to represent information that was meant for specific few individuals.”

“We’re going to go back, and we’re going to do our homework.”

“We hope that these clues might lead us further in our search for answers.”

“They just might. Appreciate it. Really do.”

“That is cool.”

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