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Post by TxTH on May 28, 2021 10:19:36 GMT -5
Hmmm....isn't Gabriel an "angel"? Didn't we read something about a blue angel in the book? Maybe that word would be useful in solving a clue? Which one is the question!
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Post by TxTH on May 19, 2021 21:12:00 GMT -5
To help you out if you have been working on this, there are two Vigenere codes, a typewriter shift, a couple of simple one letter Cesarean shifts, a very important Beale code, two Atbash ciphers with one of them including numerical digits 0-9, an acrostic confirming Beale, acrostic showing redherring, several items hidden in plain sight in the text, concealed letters in pictures that mean nothing, page 13 (to save you time) was nothing but the serial numbers on the bars of silver buried in the treasure, the Cairo font from my Apple IIGS I wrote the book on (yes, an Apple IIGS lol) Font was insignificant until last four letters., a map of the exact final location (it's not a machine), and several things that were just out right incorrect information like Mt Rainier.
An interesting side... writing chapter 6 "Wizards and Craters" actually helped me solve one of Jenny's scroll puzzles many years later. :-)
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Post by TxTH on May 19, 2021 19:28:37 GMT -5
I was thinking with all of the hunts going on these days who has time to work on this already solved puzzle? It is time I start releasing information over the next few weeks that will lead to the solution. When I released the book I told buyers that I would release additional clues. Here are some of those clues that I released. If you don't have a copy of the free book Jenny has provided the link in the folder above. The clues: ibb.co/JFpDvvs
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Post by TxTH on May 15, 2021 15:17:27 GMT -5
I had one piece of the puzzle that I didn't see anyone talking about or mention before though more may have figured it out. One clue said outright... "Ignore State Shapes". That should have waved a red flag immediately which it did to me. Why go to all that trouble and not use them in some way? It was true that you were to ignore the state shapes, but NOT their names! If you took the first letter of the states as an abbreviation you found they were an anagram that was also an abbreviation that helped narrow down the location. The letters, when arranged appropriately, spelled out "CONT. DIV." (Continental Divide) I was camped in Leadville Colorado about a year before the end of the hunt on one of my searches and I had not figured this out. After the end of the hunt and Captain Nemo released his solution I went to the burial site and the tree is definitely there. The memorial marker beside the highway also has the date from the book etched into the concrete the marker is set in. When you hold the "map" up to frame it it fits perfectly when you are the correct distance away. The x does mark the location though not precisely due to some uncontrollable factors such as being the right distance away from the tree and at the right angle which would explain the reason Captain Nemo had to dig more than once. I have many pleasant memories and had some fun trips in search of this elusive horse.
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Post by TxTH on Dec 7, 2020 15:31:41 GMT -5
It was a fun puzzle to work on and glad to see the final solution.
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Post by TxTH on Jun 18, 2020 23:59:26 GMT -5
I think that maybe Pel was thinking about how astronomy ties to astrology with so many constellations named after astrological figures such as Gemini, Taurus, etc. that we see in the paintings. As a child looking up at the stars I remember trying to identify all the different constellations, especially Gemini since that is my astrological sign.
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Post by TxTH on Jun 7, 2020 15:17:58 GMT -5
What was Rudolph? He had the shiny red nose He was the leader - with the light... Misfit? And why the quote from "The Night Before Christmas"? The conclusion of that particular line in the poem is "and St. Nicholas too." Different publishers of the poem use different punctuation for this last part so that would make punctuation seem not to be important. It could be this whole last portion of the line or the entire poem reference is unimportant since Rudolph is not even mentioned as one of the reindeer. It could be used simply to make an association of the Rudolph reference in the clue links to St. Nicholas and Christmas. And of course part of the Christmas feast is a turkey. It seems that a letter to St. Nicholas is called for to get a better explanation.
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Post by TxTH on Jun 7, 2020 7:35:35 GMT -5
This is going to free up so much room on my computer!
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Post by TxTH on May 21, 2020 11:24:06 GMT -5
This one has been hidden for at least a year...maybe two. This is rather discouraging because the "book" hasn't been written, and by the time it does get written, we won't know for sure if the treasure is still in place because it probably will not have been checked on since its placement. Many people have been searching for the Robber Lewis cache and the Virginia cache and have come up empty-handed. No one from Beal's team will confirm if the treasures are still in place. It's one thing to place the treasure, another to write the clues, but you have to be held responsible for it afterward too. There is never any follow-up on these. I think there is no need for H Charles to go and physically verify that the caches are still there and he is certainly not obligated in any way to do so. Remember we all take our chances when we go search for a treasure that it may not be there. And to say just because it has not been found by a thousand previous searchers does not mean that it is not there. It is more probable that they all looked in the wrong place or were very close but did not find the exact spot. Take a field of 10 acres and send a thousand searchers with metal detectors out to find a 12" by 4" plot, each one on a different day, and it is highly probable that the plot might not be found. Being in the right area does not mean you will find it. I was in the right area in New Mexico and it was not exactly where I thought it was. I found it because I had a limited area to search (60' by 15' - there was a vertical wall and a cliff that limited my search area!). Plus one other thing that H Charles has done...in every cache he has placed instructions for contacting him and he will make it worth your time. I received the gems AFTER I contacted him! Even if someone stumbled across one of the caches and they followed his directions, he will know it has been recovered. Otherwise, he can be very confident that the cache is still in place. If they don't follow the directions? Too bad for us. That's life. Of course I guess if you had your way and he didn't follow up then he should just stop hiding these caches so none of you other searchers can have fun while facing the reality that the cache may not be there if someone has already found it or, heaven forbid, we are in the wrong place.
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Post by TxTH on Apr 25, 2020 11:12:27 GMT -5
It is interesting that the picture you posted above shows more than what the Nov. 1982 book shows. If it was allowed to be cropped in the book I would think that, though interesting, it may not have any purpose. But you can't be sure.
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Post by TxTH on Apr 20, 2020 8:53:11 GMT -5
It is a larkspur, one of two in the painting, which is the flower of July.
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Post by TxTH on Mar 8, 2020 17:05:00 GMT -5
yes
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Post by TxTH on Feb 26, 2020 23:50:16 GMT -5
Pinewood Cafe didn't open until October 2011 and The Tiffany Bridge was built in 2008.
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Post by TxTH on Feb 25, 2020 12:15:31 GMT -5
I believe the whole zoo area has been bulldozed and redone and the animal zones have been rearranged and moved around. If you can locate 80's zoo map and compare with today's layout might help. Uh, slightly. lol Bulldozed is hardly the term for it as it was dug down close to 20 feet in some locations. The entire area of the 1980 Children's Zoo is completely gone. You will find nothing there.
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Post by TxTH on Feb 25, 2020 10:50:24 GMT -5
I was at the Houston Zoo in Hermann Park yesterday. The day started off rainy but stopped later in the morning. It was a gorgeous day and there was no crowd. I did find a couple of interesting things. For those who are proponents of the Children’s Zoo location for the casque I think I may have located the casque for you. In the picture below I am pretty certain the gorilla on the right is curled up around the casque. If you sneak into the zoo at night and climb over the rail into the gorilla area I am sure you will have no problem getting it from him. 🤣 Also, the second picture is of the current lion fountain in the present location of the Children’s Zoo that is no where near where it was when Preiss visited. I, for one, strongly disagree with the Children’s Zoo as being the location. Attachments:
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