Scott Wolter Says He Won't Reveal Oak Island Secrets without a Big TV Payday

​In a lengthy recent interview, former America Unearthed host Scott Wolter said he is releasing a censored copy of his new book with blacked-out maps and missing evidence until The Curse of Oak Island television series either pays him for the “millions of dollars in content” he says his book is worth, or the show is cancelled. Wolter said he tried contacting the History Channel’s top-rated series ahead of the mid-April publication of Oak Island, Knights Templar, and the Holy Grail: Secrets of "the Underground Project" Revealed in the hope of appearing on the show. He said that from a “financial perspective” using the show to promote his book would benefit him; however, Curse producers were not interested. As a result, Wolter decided to black out images of “evidence” in his book, including maps, and censor some of the content because he fears Curse will use his work without paying him for it.

​The statements begin around the 1:40:00 mark in the video below.

Wolter said that he will release his uncensored book and the “proof” of where the Oak Island treasure went until the show pays him what he claims his work is worth—apparently the millions of dollars he thinks his ideas are worth and not the $23 list price he charges for his book—or the History Channel ends the series. A cynic might suspect that finding the Oak Island treasure or announcing an indisputable solution to the “mystery” might be worth more than an appearance on Curse, but it’s worth noting how Wolter’s claims have taken on financial urgency as his star has fallen.
 
Wolter also announced (1:42:00) that he is ultimately pursuing the ancient wisdom of Atlantis. He follows Graham Hancock in embracing Ignatius Donnelly’s idea of Atlantis as a global high civilization, and he alleges that the Atlanteans built the pyramids during the Ice Age as a repository of wisdom. This idea comes to him from Hancock, who got it from Donnelly, who borrowed it, ultimately, from the medieval Arab-Egyptian pyramid legends first reported by Abu Ma’shar c. 850 CE and, in Wolter’s form, in the Akhbar al-zaman around 1000 CE.
 
These myths, as regular readers will remember, involved the pre-Flood people building the pyramids to protect knowledge from the Flood. The pre-Flood people are of course the Nephilim, who, by a long tradition dating back to Cosmas Indicopleustes in the sixth century, were identified with Atlantis based on the indisputable similarity between the final lines of Plato’s Critias on Zeus’s decision to punish Atlantis and the Biblical narrative of God’s decision to punish the antediluvians with the Flood. This, of course, is the reason Donnelly called Atlantis the “antediluvian world.”
 
There is nothing new in fringe history.