A Templar cannon has been found in Portugal.

Rick Lagina and his team go to Portugal in order to look into any possible connections between the mystery of Oak Island and Portugal.

They spoke to people who are experts in the military history of Portugal.
And those people agree that stone shots quite similar to the ones that were recovered on Oak Island were used in Portugal — which raises even more doubts about where the bullets came from.

The group also goes to a palace in Cra that is thought to have some sort of connection to the Templar knights who were in charge of managing the region.

Later on, they investigate a property known as Quinta da Regaleira, which is owned by a Freemason and contains an initiation well that is quite similar to the Money Pit on Oak Island.

The team continues to investigate the tunnels while they hypothesize on the importance of the connections they have found — which strengthens their belief that Oak Island is connected to a previously unknown history.

Just as a Templar cannon was found in Portugal, Rick Lagina and his team go to a military museum in Lisbon, Portugal, to talk to people who are knowledgeable about the history of Portuguese military.

They carry reproductions of stone shots that were discovered on Oak Island in the hope that their provenance can be established.

Stone arrowheads were utilized in Portugal — specifically on ships and fortifications — according to the specialists who confirmed their existence.

They even show the team a cannon that might have fired a stone shot comparable to the ones discovered on Oak Island, indicating that it is a match.

This discovery raises issues regarding how the stone shot came to be located in the Money Pit, as well as its possible relation to wooden tunnels and concentrations of silver and gold discovered on the island.

After that, the group travels to Cra to investigate a palace that is thought to be associated with the Oak Island mystery through the Templar knights who managed the property.

Quinta da Regaleira, located in Portugal, is the name of a property that was originally owned by Antonio Augusto de Carvalho Monteiro, who was a member of the Freemasons.

The property is thought to have been the site of clandestine Masonic and Templar ceremonies — and it contains an initiation well with a design that is very similar to that of the Money Pit on Oak Island.

The initial description of the Money Pit was quite similar to the layout of the well, which consists of nine floors and a circumference of 13 feet.

The group ponders the meaning of the similarities they have discovered and considers the possibility that the initiation well is a copy of the treasure vault on Oak Island.

They proceed with their exploration of the tunnels while musing on the persistent legacies left behind by the Templars and Masons.

Their time spent in Portugal has only served to reinforce their conviction that Oak Island is in some way associated with this hitherto unknown past.

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Jerusalem in the 12th century was the first known location for the Templar Knights — originally a military order of monks who lived in isolation.

Their responsibility was to safeguard the Christian visitors to the Holy Land.
They were kept imprisoned on the Temple Mount as well as in the Temple of Solomon for a total of 70 years.

Therefore, the age-old hypothesis of a conspiracy in Jerusalem.
Several long-lost documents are discovered by knights.
After that, they search for the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant.

And to this day, their offspring continue to keep the hidden spots under watch.

In the 12th century, the Knights Templar established a permanent presence in Portugal — assisting the first Portuguese rulers in the Christian reconquest and carrying on the Crusades.

The fortifications found in the Holy Land served as inspiration for the construction of the castle they established in Tomar in the year 1160.

This castle was the most technologically advanced and modern military stronghold in the kingdom at the time.

But nearly two centuries later, in 1312, Pope Clement V abolished the order in an effort to put an end to its notoriety and authority.

In Portugal, however, the Order of Christ was established as the true successor and curator of all the Templars’ spiritual and temporal wealth — ensuring that the crusading spirit of the order was maintained throughout the discoveries.

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It is very likely that the Lagina brothers will acquire most of the treasure.

The first piece of information is that their current search of Oak Island is covered under the Treasure Trove License — an act of the government that stipulates that licensed treasure finders can lawfully keep 90% of whatever wealth they find.

They elaborate by saying that if a substantial treasure were to be discovered on Oak Island, it’s possible that several claimants would emerge and make arguments for their legitimate ownership of the treasure’s contents.

These claimants could argue entitlement based on domicile, family history, or other connections.

The general idea is that a lot of individuals will try to get at least some of the famous treasure — but it’s hard to say whether or not any of them will be successful.

At the end of the day, there are at least two parties that stand to benefit from the riches — the Lagina brothers and the government.

Each would have a valid claim to ownership of at least part of the treasure.
Only time will tell if such a situation will ever take place in The Curse of Oak Island.

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Oak Island was long thought to have been a safe haven for pirates who operated during the Golden Age of Piracy in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

These pirates were believed to have traveled all along the east coast of North America and south into the Caribbean.

They questioned if they had stumbled into the location of a pirate captain’s hidden riches when they made their discovery.

However, as they continued to excavate, the shaft became filled with water because of the unusual nature of the island — which was situated on a glacial tumulus.

There was no wealth to be found.
But the legend that sprang up around the supposed buried gold was so powerful that, for the past 225 years, people from generation to generation have been making the trip to Oak Island in the hope of finding the treasure.

The search expanded over the years, with people looking for treasure buried elsewhere on the island beyond the Money Pit — the name given to the original dig by McInnis and his companions.

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However, what exactly is considered to be the treasure?

There is no shortage of speculation regarding the possible contents of the Oak Island treasure — ranging from the believable to the implausible.

The theory most widely held and supported by the most evidence is that the artifact in question is the fabled buried wealth of a renowned pirate from the so-called Golden Age of Piracy, roughly spanning 1660 to 1730.

During this time period, well-known buccaneers and pirates such as Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, cruised the waters off the east coast of North America — all the way from Canada to the Caribbean islands.

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Because of the high level of piracy during this period, the governments of Spain, England, France, and other nations with financial stakes in Atlantic commerce were powerless to stop pirates from attacking colonial ships returning to Europe.

Only when the major European nations agreed to include a provision in the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), ending the War of the Spanish Succession, did concerted attacks on pirates in the Western Atlantic bring an end to the Golden Age of Piracy.

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Many people are curious whether the Money Pit on Oak Island was created by humans.

According to geology, it is quite likely that the Money Pit was not a hidden treasure vault created by man.

The sea and water table on the island have a tendency to dissolve the bedrock.

As a direct result, an underground network of faults and caverns forms, which can collapse — resulting in natural sinkholes.

Despite this, the mystery continues to draw treasure hunters to the island.

The accounts have fueled suspicion about the pit’s formation — and the legend only grows.

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