In the month of July (2018) were three main news articles on the Forrest Fenn Treasure Hunt posted online. You might ask, what were the highlights and was anything new mentioned within them? The articles were the following: A Deadly Hunt for Hidden Treasure Spawns Online Mystery (Wired) $3 Million …
The Bacon’s Cipher, or rather method of stenography, dates back to 1605, and was developed by Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon was an English Philosopher, Author, and Statesman, who was agent for Queen Elizabeth, and later King James. His many studies and works helped advance the sciences. Stenography conceals a message …
MW’s August GiveAway is for one Free Signed copy of Armchair Treasure Hunts: The Quests for Hidden Treasures by ME! 🙂 The Foreword is written by Forrest Fenn and he also shares words on the last page of the book. These are especially to searchers of The Thrill of the …
What an exciting announcement was made yesterday on The Secret: A Treasure Hunt Byron Priess Facebook Group. It was on an upcoming treasure hunt: The Search for the 13th Casque of The Secret. That’s right. A 13th casque! As many might know The Secret is an armchair treasure hunt book …
Guest Post by BellosTheMighty As we all know, most armchair treasure hunts start with a book, or some other physical media. But some have started off as video games or other born-digital media. With the day off from work, I’ve been sitting at home bored and decided to make a …
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!
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
