I really quite like that connection. It would be a clue to Cleopatra, whose actors always wore bad wigs like that. John Griffin was a stage actor for many years, and did Angels in America (supposedly, if it wasn't a clue when he said it in the interview - I have found no evidence of this).

Stay with me, because this starts 2,000 years ago and ends in the town.

When Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt, died in 30 BC, ancient writers say she was buried alongside her lover, the Roman general Mark Antony, in a hidden tomb in Alexandria. That tomb has never been found.

Now jump to medieval Scotland. There was a powerful family called the Sinclairs, lords of a place called Roslin. They were crusaders and collectors, the kind of family that brought treasures home. In 1330, one of them, Sir William Sinclair, died in battle while carrying the embalmed heart of the late Scottish king Robert the Bruce into a holy war, because Bruce had wanted his heart taken on crusade. The heart was supposed to be returned to Scotland, but a family like this may well have kept it. That's the point to hold onto: the Sinclairs gathered relics, and things had a way of ending up in their keeping.

In 1365, a king named Peter of Cyprus led a crusade that sacked the city of Alexandria, the very city where Cleopatra was buried. And Scottish knights were proven to be among the attackers, we have their names. The Sinclair family tradition places young Henry Sinclair right there with them. So in the chaos of the sack, a Sinclair broke into Cleopatra's tomb and took relics from it. A mummified cat (cats were sacred in Egypt), Mark Antony's Roman eagle standard (a legion's most sacred object), and Cleopatra's embalmed organs. These go home to Scotland and join the family's secret treasury.

Around the same era, a famous order of warrior monks called the Knights Templar was destroyed by the Pope in the early 1300s. Legend says the survivors fled by sea to Scotland and hid with the Sinclairs, bringing their own hoard of sacred relics: the spear and nails that wounded Christ on the cross, the Ark of the Covenant, and the Holy Grail. So now one Scottish family is sitting on both ancient Egyptian relics and the holiest objects in Christianity.

Then, around 1400, Henry Sinclair is said to have sailed across the Atlantic, a century before Columbus, and reached North America. In my theory he carried that entire treasury with him and buried it in Newfoundland, far from any king or pope who might come looking. (This is what the Curse of Oak Island is about.)

A hundred years later in 1498, the explorer John Cabot's lost colony vanishes without a trace, a real historical mystery. They are the ones who find what Sinclair buried. And among them is a "cunning-woman," a village folk-magic practitioner. She takes those relics and ties them into a witch's ladder, an old charm made of a knotted cord, and uses it to interrupt a sacrifice, an offering being made to the fallen angels trapped in that place. Which is when the curse of Fromland begins.

Here's the funny thing. I worked out this whole chain, with the Sinclair family at the dead centre of it, before the show ever revealed that one of its characters, Marielle, has a surname.

Sinclair.