UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL FROM THE AUTHOR
In The Curse of Oak Island, longtime Rolling Stone contributing editor
and journalist Randall Sullivan explored the curious history of Oak
Island and the generations of people who tried and failed to unlock its
secrets. Drawing on his exclusive access to Marty and Rick Lagina, stars
of the History Channel's television show The Curse of Oak Island,
Sullivan delivers an up to the minute chronicle of their ongoing search
for the truth.
In 1795, a teenager discovered a mysterious circular depression in the
ground on Oak Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada, and ignited rumors of
buried treasure. Early excavators uncovered a clay-lined shaft
containing layers of soil interspersed with wooden platforms, but when
they reached a depth of ninety feet, water poured into the shaft and
made further digging impossible.
Since then the mystery of Oak Island's "Money Pit" has enthralled
generations of treasure hunters, including a Boston insurance salesman
whose obsession ruined him; young Franklin Delano Roosevelt; and film
star Errol Flynn. Perplexing discoveries have ignited explorers'
imaginations: a flat stone inscribed in code; a flood tunnel draining
from a man-made beach; a torn scrap of parchment; stone markers forming
a huge cross. Swaths of the island were bulldozed looking for answers;
excavation attempts have claimed two lives. Theories abound as to what's
hidden on Oak Island. Could it be pirates' treasure or Marie
Antoinette's lost jewels? Or perhaps the Holy Grail or proof of the
identity of the true author of Shakespeare's plays?
In this rich, fascinating account, Sullivan takes readers along as the
Lagina brothers mount the most comprehensive effort yet to crack the
mystery, and chronicles the incredible history of the "curse" of Oak
Island, where for two centuries dreams of buried treasure have led
intrepid treasure hunters to sacrifice everything.
