Featured Question with Forrest Fenn and The Thrill of the Chase Treasure Hunt: Gut Feeling
Mr. Fenn, Summer is here. How is your gut feeling? Hopeful My gut feeling is wavering.f Best of luck with all that you seek! Always Treasure the Adventure!
Hollow Spy Coins, Hidden Codes, and a Spy Swap with the Soviets
The following may sound like scenes from a James Bond movie. However, they are real life occurrences of the mid 1900’s. Part of this story begins with a 14-year-old newspaper boy, Jimmy Bozart, who was given a nickel in change in 1953. Another part begins with a top-secret flight mission …
MW Codes, Ciphers, and Puzzle Series: The Pigpen Cipher and the Mysterious Grave of James Leeson at Trinity Church Manhattan
The Pigpen Cipher is a simple substitution cipher. Each letter is replaced by another symbol by using fragments of a grid as a key. Although there are different geometric formats and arrangements for the key to be made, the following shows one example of a key as it was applied …
Unsolved Armchair Treasure Hunt: The Money Hunt
Guest Post by Kurt Konecny After the success of Kit William’s “Masquerade”, the early to mid 1980’s saw an influx of other armchair treasure hunts. Some, like “Treasure: In Search Of The Golden Horse” are remembered to this day. Others, like “The Golden Apple Tale“ have a much smaller following, …
Unsolved Codes and Ciphers: The President FDR Note
Declassified from the NSA files for the first time in 1977, the Friedman Lectures on Cryptology included a puzzling note that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt received in 1935 by an anonymous author. Although part of this cryptic note has been deciphered, one part remains unsolved. Can you solve it? The …
Featured Question with Forrest Fenn and The Thrill of the Chase Treasure Hunt: Forrest Asks YOU a Question
Dear Forrest, during your excavations at San Lazaro, did you ever discover any discernable pictographic panels or individual markings? If so, are you willing to share? ~ Thanks, JJDiggins. Thanks for the question JJ. In my book The Secrets of San Lazaro Pueblo, I show pictures of a kiva mural …
MW Treasure Hunt: The Sacred Scarab: Clue 4 released
The Sacred Scarab treasure hunt marks the third of a series of successful treasure hunts hosted by MW. It was released on December 21st, 2017 and remains unsolved (as of this writing). A Fourth Clue for this hunt is given below: Three other clues were previously released: Each month a …
Six Questions More with Douglas Pearson: Author of The Bossall Treasure Hunt Book
In the Fall of 2015, I had the great pleasure of asking Six Questions to Douglas Pearson, author of The Bossall Treasure and creator of The Bossall Treasure Hunt. Again, I have that wonderful opportunity! To date, no one has solved the clues within the book to discover the book’s …
MW Codes, Ciphers, and Puzzle Series: Acronyms
Although maybe not considered an official type of code to hide secrets, the acronymic process can be used in certain ways and situations to conceal messages, clues, and hints in treasure hunts or other mysteries. The word Acronym is officially defined as a word formed from the initial letters of …
The Bossall Treasure Armchair Treasure Hunt Prize: A Golden Lorraine Cross
In 2014, Douglas Pearson hid a Golden Lorraine Cross somewhere in the UK. The book, The Bossall Treasure, is an armchair treasure hunt book which includes eleven clues leading searchers to its secreted location. Anyone who discovers this location hidden in the book can claim the cross. There is no …