Have a night of plundering fun with family and friends, and decide who will become the richest pirate of the Caribbean. In the game King’s Gold by Blue Orange game company, players compete against each other in effort to collect the most gold coins. Whoever can gather the most by …
An exciting new armchair treasure hunt has been released by Andrew Layden! You may remember him from a previous hunt for an Opal Ring shared here on MW. In that hunt a poem (riddle) of 14 lines led to the Statue of Pan at Columbia University in New York City. …
Watch on MW Video or Read Below to learn more about the Lost Treasure of the Eagle Diamond: On the night of October 29th, 1964, Jack Murphy (aka Murf the Surf) and Allan Kuhn climbed up the stone walls of the American Museum of Natural History and stole some of …
There are Treasures Out There for YOU to Find! In MW’s Treasure News episodes we share stories about recently found treasures!. Might they offer ideas on how YOU can discover treasures?! Watch on Video or Read Below: 1)Largest Diamond Found in North America In early December, Canada’s Dominion Diamond Mines …
Article by Dustin White Map of the Dead, released in November 2016, was the second novel and first treasure hunt by English author Murray Bailey. The challenge: solve the treasure hunt within the story about a hunt for ancient Egyptian treasure. The prize: a custom made 18 karat golden pyramid. …
In 2004, A Treasure’s Trove, was released. This armchair treasure hunt by Michael Stadther started off as a quest for twelve tokens hidden across the United States. The found tokens could then be redeemed for a valuable jeweled creature (or cash). Later into the hunt, it was realized there was a …
The Secret Armchair Treasure Hunt, The Secret Podcast, and the End of an Era By John Michaels For about 10 years now I have been involved in what is perceived to be one of the longest running armchair treasure hunts in existence, The Secret – A Treasure Hunt. Over the …
Book Review by John Davis The Million-Dollar Man Who Helped Kill a President, by Christopher Lyle McIlwain, Sr.; Savas Beatie LLC: California; $32.95, hardback (available on Amazon) A more thoroughly researched true mystery you’ll never read. George Washington Gayle and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln is no marginal revisionist history. …
The first museum open to the public in England was called The Ark or the Musaeum Tradescantianum. It held numerous curiosities collected by John Tradescant and his son during the early 1600’s. The Tradescants traveled extensively gathering up unique and previously unknown specimens of plants and trees, and other fascinating …
Follow your gut feeling never came more true than in May of 1918 for William T. Robey. He was a stamp collector and was aware that a new issue of stamps was going to be produced which required a two step process. He wrote to his friends the following: “It …
