As author of numerous best-selling books, Douglas Preston is well known for providing readers with captivating adventures. Some of these tales, like Relic (which was later made into a motion picture), have been written with co-author Lincoln Child. Others, Preston has written solo. Mr. Preston has worked for the Museum …
UPDATE 11/27/2020: TREASURE HUNT ENDED Hidden somewhere on Mount Desert Island, Maine, a treasure worth over $10,000 waits to be rewarded to a person who solves the master riddle of Fandango. The treasure hunt was first introduced to the public on June 29th, 2007. After more than 10 years, no …
Although not the first line of Forrest Fenn’s treasure hunt poem, ‘Begin it where warm waters halt’ seems to be the place most people are starting. And for good reason. In the Feb. 27th, 2013, Today Show interview, it is where Mr. Fenn himself began to read, and where puzzlers …
At the end of The Thrill of the Chase, on the last page, are two Omega symbols. They rest near the top of the page and sit side by side. They obviously hold meaning to Forrest Fenn or he wouldn’t have placed them there. The page is considered the colophon. …
The following poem is found in the book The Thrill of the Chase by Forrest Fenn. It is said to contain nine clues, and upon complete understanding, will lead a person to a bronze treasure chest filled with over a million dollars worth of treasure. This chest of riches has been …
On December 1st, 1948, a man was discovered dead on Somerton beach in Adelaide, Australia. Commonly referred to as simply the Somerton man, because his identity remains unknown today, the deceased man and his body left few clues to help with the investigation. Many of the circumstances surrounding the death …
On September 3rd, 1857, the S.S. Central America set sail for New York from Aspinwall. A few days into the voyage a powerful hurricane collided with the 272 foot sidewheel steamer and caused the steamship to slip beneath the waves. A total of 426 people and the entire ship’s cargo …
The Maranatha Puzzle included thirty-one pages of pig-pen text. Thirty of those coded pages consisted of 156 characters in a 12×13 block form. One page, however, consisted of only 103 characters. 53 spaces were left blank. Upon decipherment the page was seen to include the following phrase: “Contentment is the …
The 1907 Saint-Gaudens high relief double eagle is considered one of America’s most beautiful coins. The striking design by Augustus Saint-Gaudens prominently displays Lady Liberty pushing forth. In her right hand she holds a torch aloft (representing enlightenment) and in her other she grasps an olive branch (peace). With rays …
Because I had previously worked with The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam once before, I found it interesting to do so again. While reading Forrest Fenn’s book, I immediately recognized the first quatrain on page 101 of The Thrill of the Chase to be one linked to an unsolved code from …
