Winners, solutions and prizes

[forgottenhistoryhunt]

I now have three winners!

Congratulations! to these hunters who solved the poem and discovered 'Who I Am.'

First prize goes to inatimate1

Second prize goes to tiffanilinntreasure

Third prize goes to michellel

The solution and the prizes will be posted soon :-)

Thank you all for playing!

-FHH

[Jenny]

Prizes:

[Jenny]

Solution: CLICK FOR PDF

[Jenny]

Congrats to the winners! Another great hunt...very fun to watch all the minds in gear.....

[forgottenhistoryhunt]

Feb 18, 2021 16:27:45 GMT -5 Jenny said:

Congrats to the winners! Another great hunt...very fun to watch all the minds in gear.....

Thank you Jenny! And thanks for posting the solution and prizes.

-FHH

[whispa]

Congratulations to all!

I had Bangs, Ohio as my boom town !!! Shocked I didn't find her. Was a lot of fun and looking forward to the next.

[Deleted]

Congratulations all!

Wow - I’ve never heard of her/this. How interesting!

[goldhunter]

I had never heard of this. Interesting, fun, and educational.

Some of my thoughts were close. But, ultimately, I was still a long way from the answer.

Great job. Congratulations to the winners.

[inatimate1]

This was such a fun hunt for a very elusive character.

You wouldn't believe the number of rabbit holes I went down along the way. Actually I'm sure everyone ventured down most of the same ones!

After working out the Ohio link I searched for everything, that the poem and clues might have been alluding to, "people born in ohio.... in 1850, and also every year in the clue", "people who died from Ohio in every year from the clue" "people born in Ohio, with Paris 1972" "Inventions (from Ohio) in 1850", any sort of links to "Columbia", which ended up being Columbia Pictures, Columbia University, the SS Columbia (in fact my last proper brute search was on ships built in Ohio .

No amount of random Google searching for partials got me any closer to solving this, I found so much out about Ohio though which was truly fascinating, and at one point I was completely convinced that the link was something to do with Daniel Chester French... Born in 1850, New Hampshire (which I had mentioned before I thought was linked to the two names meaning the same thing), he even sculpted the Alma Mater statue outside of Columbia University!

Interestingly enough, I had a brainwave and even searched for fictional people from Ohio, Scrappy Doo was my favourite name from that list, but there was no sign of Ms. Mountweazel anywhere (despite being a fictional character from Ohio!). I had convinced myself of so many things, but it was only drawing links between the two cities that actually got me there. Even though I'd posted to say I couldn't find one at first.

I almost put in that post that I was frantically looking for places called Blastville, Nitro City or TNT Creek as a bit of a tongue in cheek comment, I never knew how close to the truth that line of thought actually was.

It was only through drawing a circle and running down roads around 35 miles from Columbus that I finally struck gold, I was also doing the same around Indianapolis as these were the only two cities that fell inside the boundaries given. I knew it had to be somewhere off to the North, as any other direction was outside of the area, and then as soon as I saw "Bangs" I knew I had found what was needed, and then everything clicked in to place when I read about her and it fit with the entire poem.

I did briefly read about Columbia Encyclopaedia, but couldn't find anything concrete there either, but if you actually search Google for Columbia Encyclopaedia and 1850, the fourth hit down is an article about her (it was about the only thing I hadn't added 1850 to!).

Congrats to everyone who won, this was a lot of fun and I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for more from FHH as it's the kind of puzzle I enjoy. I feel like I've learnt so much that the prize is secondary to the fun I've had along the way. I honestly thought whispa was going to be one of the other winners as I felt they were thinking along the same lines as I was. I honestly got lucky because I was so close to giving up as it was hurting my head :/

[whispa]

inatimate, reading your experience was almost a mirror of mine!
I actually excluded photographers from my search after the first few days as I thought that was too "in the box" and that I had exhausted all of those options so I was looking for crazier professions by the time I made the Bangs connection! I believe I had even gotten into Tiger trainers and roadkill artists at one point... I think this is why I didn't come across our girl. We also had a terrible storm here that knocked out my power/internet on and off for days so I kind of just gave up at one point.

But, when the solution was revealed .. all I did was type 'bangs ohio photographer 1972 paris' into google and boom, there she was!

[artofhiddenmessages]

Lots of fun! Congratulations to the winners!

Thanks again to Forgotten History Hunts for another interesting hunt!

[Chouetteur]

I thought Virginia was certainly the middle name as there's no other state name that can be remotely used for a middle name, but I still couldn't find it..."woman photographer with Virginia as middle name" was my Google search when that clue came out. To be honest I'm surprised that Lillian Virginia Mountweazel didn't exist, but that was an interesting fact! Looking forward to the next one, FHH!

[forgottenhistoryhunt]

Feb 19, 2021 9:04:57 GMT -5 Chouetteur said:

I thought Virginia was certainly the middle name as there's no other state name that can be remotely used for a middle name, but I still couldn't find it..."woman photographer with Virginia as middle name" was my Google search when that clue came out. To be honest I'm surprised that Lillian Virginia Mountweazel didn't exist, but that was an interesting fact! Looking forward to the next one, FHH!

Thanks, Chouetteur!

Actually, I know a teenage girl whose name is Indiana. The movie, Raising Arizona is about a child named Arizona. And there is always Georgia or Carolina :-)  There were other options, but I thought most people would narrow it to Virginia, Georgia or Carolina.

I felt that if people identified Ohio and tried a few ideas about city transportation, along with photographer, our Lillian would come up in the Google searches. Certainly once Bangs, OH was found, she would be easy to find.

On a side note, here are some 'mountweazels' that were placed in other publications as copyright traps:

Apopudobalia

Zzxjoanw (which unbelievably went unnoticed for years!)

Esquivalience
Jungftak

Dord (this one was unintentional - it was supposed to read D or d.)

And my second favorite, which I almost used for the hunt before settling on Mountweazel:

Stone Louse: "The stone louse is a fictitious little mite that gnawed its way into the German medical dictionary Pschyrembel Klinisches WÃrterbuch in 1983. It was based on a parody nature documentary by the German humorist Loriot. It seems that most people caught on to the joke, because the stone louse remains in the dictionary, with each edition seeming to expand on the mite's habitat, medical value and natural enemies. Apparently, the louse was instrumental in bringing down the Berlin Wall, as the wall was placed in areas "commonly inhabited by the stone louse." Who knew?!

[Chouetteur]

Feb 19, 2021 9:19:55 GMT -5 forgottenhistoryhunt said:

Feb 19, 2021 9:04:57 GMT -5 Chouetteur said:

I thought Virginia was certainly the middle name as there's no other state name that can be remotely used for a middle name, but I still couldn't find it..."woman photographer with Virginia as middle name" was my Google search when that clue came out. To be honest I'm surprised that Lillian Virginia Mountweazel didn't exist, but that was an interesting fact! Looking forward to the next one, FHH!

Thanks, Chouetteur!

Actually, I know a teenage girl whose name is Indiana. The movie, Raising Arizona is about a child named Arizona. And there is always Georgia or Carolina :-)  There were other options, but I thought most people would narrow it to Virginia, Georgia or Carolina.

I felt that if people identified Ohio and tried a few ideas about city transportation, along with photographer, our Lillian would come up in the Google searches. Certainly once Bangs, OH was found, she would be easy to find.

On a side note, here are some 'mountweazels' that were placed in other publications as copyright traps:

Apopudobalia

Zzxjoanw (which unbelievably went unnoticed for years!)

Esquivalience
Jungftak

Dord (this one was unintentional - it was supposed to read D or d.)

And my second favorite, which I almost used for the hunt before settling on Mountweazel:

Stone Louse: "The stone louse is a fictitious little mite that gnawed its way into the German medical dictionary Pschyrembel Klinisches WÃrterbuch in 1983. It was based on a parody nature documentary by the German humorist Loriot. It seems that most people caught on to the joke, because the stone louse remains in the dictionary, with each edition seeming to expand on the mite's habitat, medical value and natural enemies. Apparently, the louse was instrumental in bringing down the Berlin Wall, as the wall was placed in areas "commonly inhabited by the stone louse." Who knew?!

Certainly interesting!
Sorry, I meant states with eight-letter names - who would make a kid's middle name "Arkansas"?  

[michellel]

Thank you forgottenhistoryhunt for a wonderful experience! What a great Esquivalience for a snow day The stone Louse had me cracking up. I also found an article about Glitch a pentagon chaos monster who went undetected for 42 years. The article claims the listing is also in the encyclopedia. How Fun! I don't have the Encyclopedia just yet to verify that information, but thought it was an interesting tidbit. Thanks again for the hunt!