The Curse of Oak Island: SHOCKING TEMPLAR CANNON Found in Portugal (Season 9)

Rick Laguina and members of the team
arrive at the renowned military museum
in Lisbon, Portugal. Nice to meet you all
of you here.

Korean Mall has arranged for them to
meet with Sergeants Ricardo Lopez
and Carlos Monroe, both of whom are
experts in Portuguese military history.

So the reason why we’re here is we have
some artifacts that we have found
on the island, and we were hoping that
you can affirm that the stone shot which
we have is exact
match to what you may have here in the
museum.

Okay, no problem. Well, we’ve
actually brought along replicas of the
uh, stone shot we found on Oak Island.

Okay.

All right, there’s one.
Oh, caliber for forcing tinters maybe? Yes,
3.9 centimeters.

Over the past two years, the team has
found two small cannonballs or stone
shots, one of which was recovered from
deep in the money pit area. But even more
compelling was the recent analysis
conducted by geology professor Dr. Robert
Rayside,
who believed the stone that they were
composed of may have originated in
Portugal’s Azores Islands.

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Could we expect our stone shot to be
made in the Azores or here on the
mainland? Yes, definitely.

Wow. They could use very small calibers
for these types of cannons.

Those types of weapons were mainly used
on ships.

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

Is that a general rule that
smaller caliber on ships?

On ships or on fortresses?

But modern ships. Okay, yes, yes, they were
lighter to be used on ships and also
they could be used on the deck,
what they call a swivel gun.

Yes, exactly, swivel gun.

If we could see a cannon that would
shoot that stone shot, such as that, we
would love to see it. Yeah, we have it
here, so if you could come with me. Okay,
love to.

We puzzle now over
why was that stone shot found down in
the money pit?

This one could be used on a ship? Are
they an artifact that was absolutely
connected to Oak Island and perhaps here
to this land?

So this right here, yes.
This is
15th, 16th century
with a four-centimeter caliber
and fires a uh, half a Portuguese pound
iron ball.

We’ve got one of the replicas here.
Um, we can try it, it’s pretty corroded
here, so…

Oh, look at that.
Pretty close.

So I would say that’s a match to this,
but that pretty much confirms that that
is a
known caliber of shot
from the 14-1500s.

But there’s a possibility that
if you were doing something, say on our
island,
you needed to protect what you were
doing to keep people away,
remove this gun from the ship,
mount it in some fashion on the island.
If they were building some type of
semi-permanent or permanent structure,
they could take this gun out of the ship
and place it
on top of palisade, for example.

That’s big. That’s huge. Good.

Could the team have just found an
explanation for how one of the
potentially Portuguese stone shots was
found deep in the money pit area? There’s
quite a bit of corrosion in there. If so,
could it be related to the evidence of
wooden tunnels discovered earlier this
year, which could date to as early as
1488,
and also the high concentrations of
silver and gold?

I think we have a new
strong possibility that we really have
to give consideration to,
and I’m very, very hopeful. But it
couldn’t happen without people like
yourselves,
and we’re most appreciative.

Later that afternoon,
nearly 20 miles west of Lisbon,
welcome to Sintra, and you are in the
heart of this very romantic town.

Rick Lagina and his team arrive at an
early 20th-century palace known as
Quinta de Regaleira.

Here, Corian Mall
and Templar historian Zhao Fiandero have
arranged to show them one final
structure that they believe may be
directly connected to the Oak Island
mystery.

The Templar Knights came to here and they
managed the land for a long time.
Everything you see was built in the last
century
to create this
magical Masonic wonderland, but it’s
based on much older ideas.

In 1147,
during the Crusades, following his
conquest of Lisbon,
the first king of Portugal, Alfonso
Henriques, also captured the town of
Sintra.

In 1154, the town and its administrative
duties were transferred to the Knights
Templar, who utilized it as a stronghold
for centuries to come.

However, in 1904,
a wealthy freemason named Antonio
Augusto de Carvalho Montero
purchased this property
and established it as Quinta de Regaleira,
a vast palatial estate where he is
believed to have hosted secret Masonic
and Templar
rituals.

And there’s indeed something
here that
will remind you very much of Oak Island:
the initiation well. That is the
masterpiece here. Let’s go. I’d love to.

The beauty is inside.
That’s remarkable.
Wow.

Wow, it’s deep.

What is this dimension? The diameter?
13 feet,
which is awful from failure.

That chamber at the bottom, I mean,
it’s very Masonic at its core.

What I can’t help but compare it to is the
design of the money pit. The initiation
well has nine platforms.
The ninth floor sounds like something
that we have possibly on Oak Island. Yeah,
the money pit. Yep.

Okay, let’s go down.

Smooth and easy.
Because watch your steps.

When you look at the well, there are nine
levels. We know there were nine levels in
the original description of the money
pit.
We know
that the original money pit was 13 feet
in diameter.

It’s curious
if that is not a coincidence, and it
seems as though it is not. Then where was
that information derived, and why was it
important to replicate it?

What does it mean? I don’t know.

It is rather spectacular, isn’t it? Yeah.

Remember the Restalls thought there
was a spiral staircase around the money
pit.

In 1963,
while conducting a lateral drilling
operation deep in the money pit, Oak
Island treasure hunters Robert Rustal
Senior and Bobby Rustal Jr. reportedly
drilled through a series of mysterious
voids at oddly descending angles,
beginning more than 100 feet underground.

This discovery led them to the
astonishing conclusion that a spiral
tunnel encircled the money pit,
potentially leading to the fabled
treasure vault.

We’re almost there, guys.

Is it possible that the initiation well,
with its nine levels, 13-foot diameter,
and which was constructed nearly six
decades before the Restalls’ discovery,
is in fact a replica of the Oak Island
money pit?

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Oh, man.

So you would
perfectly see that oak tree from here,
right?
A branch of an oak tree over the well.
That’s exactly what the money pit story
is about.

We now
start the path in the tunnels.

The whole point of the initiation well
is to
create a representation of the influence
of Templars, possibly the influence of
Masonic beliefs and ideals.
And here we are,
back into the light, back in the light.
Initiation done.

There may be some
correlation between the initiation well
and the money pit on Oak Island.
We have to take the information back and
see what it tells us.

What we’ve seen here is a vision that
was not inspired but instructed
by knowledge from the past, which has
been carried forward from the Knights
Templar into the Order of Christ,
into the Masonic thought, leading all the
way up to this, right? It shows that the
ideas have persisted
throughout time, even to today.
And that means that they must have been
worth preserving.

I truly believe in what we have learned
in Portugal. It only
enhances my belief that Oak Island is
part of this legacy.

I think we continue to persevere in that
with that hope,
and for that, we thank you.

Sempre Avanti.

Saint.