The “Buried Treasure” on Sullivan’s Island
[caption id="attachment_192" align="alignleft" width="359"] "The Secret"[/caption] 2017 has been full of adventures! Several months ago, I wrote a couple quick posts about how I stumbled across “The Secret: A Treasure Hunt”, a book that was written by Byron Preiss and published in 1982. This book is what’s known as an “armchair treasure hunt”, and it features a series of clues which lead to a dozen buried treasures across North America. Basically, all a person had to do was buy the book, match one of twelve cryptic verses up with another set of equally puzzling paintings, and then somehow the clues would lead you to an exact location. That done, you could dig down through three feet of dirt to pull out a buried "treasure casque". These ceramic casques each contained…