
Archeologists Investigate The Knights Templar In America
Forensic geologist Scott Wolter traces the Knights Templar from their official founding in 1129 to their violent suppression by the French crown in 1307, then follows the trail across the Atlantic. The film examines the order's commanderies in France, weighs the symbolism of the so-called Hooked X mark found on stones in North America, and tests the theory that Templars carrying a guarded secret about a holy bloodline reached the continent generations before Columbus. Wolter also turns skeptic in Pennsylvania, working through a supposed Templar artifact to show how modern hoaxes get built and how they can be picked apart with basic geology and metallurgy. Interviews with historians and researchers sit alongside site visits and physical evidence, letting the film argue its case through stone carvings and archival records rather than speculation alone. It stays squarely in fringe-history territory, but it does the legwork: comparing symbols, checking dates, and showing its reasoning at each step before asking viewers to draw their own conclusion.