Randall Sullivan is a rather well-known American author who has served as a journalist, a producer, and a TV personality from time to time. Primarily, he is known for a few books. The first was Labyrinth, which detailed a claim that the LAPD had covered up Suge Knight’s role in ordering the murders of both Tupac Shaku and the Notorious B.I.G. Meanwhile, the other two was The Miracle Detective, which was essentially a conversion narrative claiming that Our Lady of Medjugorje was real, and Untouchable, which focused on the personal habits of Michael Jackson. Suffice to say that while Sullivan is rather well-known, his books have received a fair amount of criticism as well, meaning that interested individuals should look into them to form their own opinions.
What Is Randall Sullivan’s New Book?
Regardless, Randall Sullivan’s latest book is called The Curse of Oak Island, which is perhaps unsurprising to those who have seen him on Marty and Rick Lagina’s TV show of the same name. The book will come out in 2018, but it seems probable that it will cover the location, some of the people who have searched in said location, as well as some of the theories that have been suggested in regards to said location. Not coincidentally, there are signs that a new season of The Curse of Oak Island will be coming out sometime soon in the not so distant future in spite of some initial doubts, which should come as welcome news to those who love watching that sort of thing.
What Does This Mean?
Speaking bluntly, this means nothing. There have been a lot of people who have spent a lot of time searching at the same location on Oak Island, but no one has ever managed to find something to substantiate the claim of buried treasure. In fact, there isn’t even a coherent narrative for what the buried treasure is supposed to be, as shown by the succession of wilder and wilder stories told on The Curse of Oak Island, with examples ranging from Marie Antoinette’s jewels to William Shakespeare’s lost plays and the Knights Templar’s secret stash. For that matter, even when someone comes up with some semi-plausible speculation, some research reveals it to be based on poor foundations. There is no better proof of this than the popular claim of treasure buried by pirates, which comes from fiction rather than from fact for the simple reason that pirates tended to be people who spent their earnings as soon as possible. Never mind how the one historical example of treasure buried by pirates was meant to use it as a bargaining tool for an upcoming trial rather than save it for future use.
Summed up, it seems probable that The Curse of Oak Island by Randall Sullivan seems like one more example of the public’s rather bizarre fascination with the place, which has somehow managed to pick up a life of its own. As a result, while people should not hesitate to read it if they happen to like watching The Curse of Oak Island, they should strive to maintain a degree of skepticism while they do so. After all, if there is real treasure buried on Oak Island, one would imagine that someone would have found something by this point in time, seeing as how a semi-regular succession of people have been searching there for centuries.
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