WILLIAM SHATNER: Tell me what you
found that's important enough to rewrite history.
- That. - What?
RICK LAGINA: That.
CRAIG TESTER: Yeah.
That medieval cross.
Give me the cross.
OK.
This has been ascertained to have antiquity, right?
Yes.
1400.
Is that correct?
CRAIG TESTER: Yep.
Mm-hmm.
This is around 600 years old.
Well, it was mined 600 years ago.
WILLIAM SHATNER: Where was it mined?
South of France, best we know.
WILLIAM SHATNER: OK, this is from south of France.
MARTY LAGINA: Yes.
WILLIAM SHATNER: So that doesn't mean that this
was here 600 years ago.
No.
WILLIAM SHATNER: It was in France 600 years ago
and arrived here at an undetermined date.
Of course.
Correct.
WILLIAM SHATNER: Was this found underground?
It was found in Smith's Cove.
There's the man who found it.
WILLIAM SHATNER: With your shovel,
you were able to uncover it?
Oh, I don't do my own digging.
I've got all these guys to dig for me.
[LAUGHTER]
But yeah, Rick and I were on Smith's Cove Beach,
and Rick dug that out.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Holy--
Holy shimoly, all right.
It's a cross.
Oh, my gosh.
I mean, that is an old, old cross.
Is this worth anything?
It could be.
That could be part of the treasure
that we're looking for.
It doesn't have to be gold and silver.
It could be some fantastic religious treasure.
And I'm hoping it is.
Well, even the cynic in me says how many of those
have you seen in North America?
I've never seen--
Neither have we.
[LAUGHTER]
Who put all this here?
Do you have any concrete ideas and opinions?
What are your theories?
What are you thinking?
Templars.
[LAUGHS]
That's where I'm going.
Y'all believe in Templars?
Because the Templars seems to be the prevalent idea.
I would love it to be something in association
with the Templars, because 300 years ago,
from nine knights to rivaling the monarchy and the Vatican
for power and influence, right?
And then they're gone.
How wonderful to fill those pages of history.
You know, the Templars are a great answer,
in that we know that they were marked for destruction.
And many of them ran as quickly as possible to escape the death
by the French King, wasn't it?
King Philip III.
King Philip.
And many of them were put to death.
But many Templars escaped.
Where did they go?
If I were a Templar, I'd have gone to Oak Island immediately.
[LAUGHTER]
We went to the famous Templar prison in France, Domme.
There was a walled city.
WILLIAM SHATNER: In France? RICK LAGINA: Yes.
At the gate, there was a--
WILLIAM SHATNER: Where in France?
RICK LAGINA: --tower.
Domme. That's the name--
Oh, that's the name of the city.
D-O-M-M-E. Domme.
I am D-O-U-M-B.
[LAUGHTER]
Come in.
RICK LAGINA: But within the walls of that prison,
where up to 70 Templar Knights were imprisoned,
they knew at that point they would
never see their freedom again.
And you can see lots of evidence of how they passed
their time, which was by making carvings in the walls
to sustain them spiritually.
Over here is some of the most well-known carvings
they've done.
This way.
RICK LAGINA: And there are hundreds,
perhaps even thousands, of carvings
on the walls of that prison.
Deep carvings of the Virgin Mary with the child, Jesus.
Rather ordinary crosses.
RICK LAGINA: And one of those carvings
certainly looks like that very cross.
And I would be willing to bet that you could
take that and put it in the wall of the prison,
and it would line up perfectly.
WILLIAM SHATNER: Wow.