Scott Wolter

Oh, absolutely they did.

As I said, well, based on the documents that we have, something called the Cremona document, which I am now just finishing a book with a guy that essentially brought these documents to me, is paired with another story about really another person

aspect of the same covenant, if you will.

And that's in a book that I just published called The Sinclair Weems Journals.

But a lot of this information that I'm going to be talking to you about is not published yet and really goes into much more detail about the story, which includes Oak Island.

The Cremona document also talks about Oak Island in great detail.

And like I said, this story actually goes all the way back to the beginning of the Crusades when the Templar order was originally founded.

And when they captured Jerusalem back in 1118 and the first grand master was installed, Hugh de Payens, their mission was,

was not to capture Jerusalem for the Roman church.

Really what they wanted to do was establish a base of operations in the region so they could go into different areas and recover treasures, I'll call it treasures, in the region like Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, and of course in Israel.

So there's a lot more to the Templar story

that passes through Oak Island.

Oak Island is just one part of it, but Oak Island is really very important, and the show is important because it's bringing the Templars and the idea of bringing treasure over to North America that was hidden for a long period of time, but they had a mission, they had a goal.

This covenant was ultimately to establish a sanctuary

something in the journals they called a free Templar state.

They also called it the New Jerusalem.

Brother Francis Bacon called it the New Atlantis.

And we now call it today the United States of America.

And one of the most important things, I think,

people need to know is that going back to when the Templars were put down in 1307, October 13th in 1307, they were persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church and the monarchs of Europe, King Philip the Fair of France, right?