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Back to the podcast. After doing podcasts for awhile, interviewing and just chatting with people involved in creating the book, production teams, ECT... The podcast team was amassing a fairly large amount of inside information. Some if it might be helpful... But we had no idea which peices of information were true. For instance, before Boston was confirmed I asked jjp if Boston being found in a ballfield was a plausible story. Jjp answered "I don't think there is a casques in Boston" It's never a good idea to ask any of the people who worked on the book direct questions. They always lie. Eventually we developed trust with everyone and began working on compiling all this inside info, and verifying it, so we could attribute it to people and release it. This included fairly decent images of the original paintings. This was all going to be released this Saturday at a Meetup in new Orleans. Somehow JM got his hands on some of the images of the paintings and released them. There was a mixed reaction. Some people were grateful, others disappointed. A day or so later JM released another statement saying everything had been stolen from him and no one cares so he is cancelling the tribute hunt and taking that casque. He said it was already dug up. And that was it. He took his toys and went home. I tried to make this as brief as I could, and leave out any drama or whatever that wasn't necessary for the story. If you want me to clarify or elaborate on something let me know.
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Tldr; JM doesn't want to play with anyone anymore because no one cares about the drama he made up in his head.
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Nah that’s great and insightful, thanks man. 
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He's a very stable genius.
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burnstyle posted:Somehow JM got his hands on some of the images of the paintings and released them. Thanks for the info! It turns out HE was the rear end in a top hat all along! Can this be shared here? Or is that a no-no? Curious to see what the fuss is about.
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That is interesting about JJP lying about Boston when asked. In his reveal he didn't lie iirc. But his complicity with the awarding is not in the spirit of the correctness of decent solve in my view. He has a contract and the awarding of gems isn't his business though so I see why he has to be broad. I still have to watch all the meet videos. With the Corona lockdown I can get back to work. The tribute has distracted me for too long although was fun. Out of interest who pointed out the latitude and longitude stuff? Also who pointed out birthgems map to clock times? Guessing the latter was agreed on long ago. These people lost to the mists of time? Also I have actually tried to work out how TOS Star Treck maps to images 1 and 6. If you want a fresh puzzle working out what some guy is going to write a 400 page book on this subject, then to take a fun break- you can. Want clues on this folks?.... Then get injected with too much Cordrazine and jump through the rabbit hole on the city on the edge of forever. FelchTragedy fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Mar 14, 2020 |
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Robert Fox found the lat long on q4t years ago. Moths and birthstones have just always been accepted.
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DeNofa posted:Thanks for the info! It turns out HE was the rear end in a top hat all along! Can this be shared here? Or is that a no-no? Curious to see what the fuss is about. I promised the palencar family that I would not share them. But they are out there now and I can't stop anyone else from sharing them, nor do I think people should look down on those who share them.
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PSA. DrunkNerds sold out and writes for SA now. https://www.somethingawful.com/feature-articles/death-surprisingly-hilarious/ https://www.somethingawful.com/news/crazy-treasure-hunt/ burnstyle fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Mar 27, 2020 |
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I don’t see anything about urban smurf in that article wtf
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xie posted:football is coming home lads (I'm still at the point where every tenth post is Vincent Van Goatse calling us idiots because nobody will ever find anything and people on Q4T are exhibiting obvious mental illnesses), but I'm laughing my rear end off at how completely wrong Xie was now that it was actually found. Same for the PBworks analysis of the image, it's all vague references to Boston mixed with some ridiculous poo poo about a utility box that doesn't exist. Kind of hoping that once I catch up (only 20 pages to go), someone does a line-by-line of the Boston verse and the solve because most of it seems to have nothing to do with the actual location. I get the five steps/blocks north of Thucydides' direction and ending up "In the middle section" of the green between the two halves of Commonwealth Ave, but the tower of lights? the Coliseum? If those are just vague baseball references and supposed to lead us to a couple of baseball fields two miles from Fenway and in the opposite direction relative to the library, then we might as well throw darts at maps of cities and dig where they hit. Back to the stairs, home=home plate, the Paul revere stuff, sure that makes sense, but what do "all the letters" have to do with anything? This is as good a confirmation as any that Preiss was every bit as terrible at writing riddles as everyone suspected he was. Unrelated to the actual treasure hunt, I'm pretty pissed that I missed the opportunity to sell my $4 copies of the original print run when they were going for hundreds of dollars. Related to the treasure hunt, does anyone know how much trouble you'll get in for digging in John Paul Jones Park?
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My original copy is more duct-tape than book at this point. I’ve continued to be very busy on this treasure hunt, but failed to find anything but dirt, roots, and geocaches. My shovel is duct-taped too. There’s now more useless information and unshared discovery in my duct-taped vault than ever. It’s surprising how much the landscape has changed in the world and in the many forums where discussion sometimes takes place. I think more attention towards the Japanese edition is needed. I wonder if we need a better translation of some parts. I was about to head to a dig in Canada last month, but the border got shut down. If that plan ever resumes, I’ll be sure to bring duct-tape - because I learned once from a very bad snowboarding day that duct-tape helps prevent wrist breakage. .
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In the interest of levity-- I recently started skimming through the US Heavy Metal backlog chronologically to see wtf the deal with that weird evolutionary cul de sac was, and it was amusing to turn the page and see both advertisements and full exposes on this book.
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mind the walrus posted:full exposes 
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You can find the pages in the image gallery on 12treasures media page. https://12treasures.com/media-2/
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Drunk Nerds posted:Can we work on finding Forrest Fenn's treasure? 5 years later this treasure has been found https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/forrest-fenns-treasure-reportedly-found/5753216/?cat=500
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found a cask, write-up coming soon
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treasure bear posted:found a cask, write-up coming soon 
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Testvan posted:5 years later this treasure has been found So...is there a picture of it? Or a location? No there is not? It never existed it seems. Or a friend or relative wanted some tax free income.
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Hi, I'm am idiot who didn't check for new posts before I posted about the Fenn treasure.
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Comstar posted:So...is there a picture of it? Or a location? There's a photo in that link.
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Jubs posted:There's a photo in that link. I think he meant post-find No information or images have been released yet.
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Did you guys solve it yet
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Arrhythmia posted:Did you guys solve it yet yeah, write-up in progress
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treasure bear posted:yeah, write-up in progress Noice. 
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Updates time. JM has decided the casque is no longer on his mantle. He has restarted the tribute hunt. JJP will be on an episode of expedition unknown at 9pm est on the 22nd
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burnstyle posted:Updates time. lmao he got sick of not being the center of any drama
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Speaking of JM, last year he did a holiday question-and-answer special, and he's bringing it back: There will be musical accompaniment by yours truly. Last year we had close to 1,000 livestream viewers, it was fun. Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Dec 7, 2020 |
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Nice. Could I get a write up on the solution?
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So this thread has been brought back from the grave... someone must have finally picked up a shovel!
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BigBadSteve posted:So this thread has been brought back from the grave... someone must have finally picked up a shovel! It is fun noting that the poster itt who had a surefire dig spot but frozen ground/broken wrist kept them from digging was 100% wrong since they found the Boston casque somewhere else. Their excitement and solution were genuinely fun to see though.
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As someone who quietly followed/skimmed it from the beginning, yes.
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John Michaels, the podcast co-founder and creator of the Tribute Hunt, passed away on Saturday. Burnstyle is setting up a tribute stream for him on Saturday. Check the Tribute Hunt FB for details. Feels bad man.
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