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Post by zaphod73491 on Feb 27, 2020 14:00:32 GMT -5
Hi Jenny: to add to your catalog of possible letters, numbers or pictograms hiding in the TTOTC illustrations, there is also Diggin Gypsy's find a couple of years ago in the "Tea With Olga" clouds: dalneitzel.com/book-of-blazes-dg2/She noted "22356" but it looked more like either "227356" or "223356" to me (I noted the former to her on Dal's in the comments below back in Feb. 2018). |
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Post by theoretical on Feb 27, 2020 16:38:14 GMT -5
Hi Jenny: to add to your catalog of possible letters, numbers or pictograms hiding in the TTOTC illustrations, there is also Diggin Gypsy's find a couple of years ago in the "Tea With Olga" clouds: dalneitzel.com/book-of-blazes-dg2/She noted "22356" but it looked more like either "227356" or "223356" to me (I noted the former to her on Dal's in the comments below back in Feb. 2018). don’t see much there myself but maybe others do. www.numberempire.com/22356 |
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Post by zaphod73491 on Feb 27, 2020 17:09:20 GMT -5
Hi Jenny: to add to your catalog of possible letters, numbers or pictograms hiding in the TTOTC illustrations, there is also Diggin Gypsy's find a couple of years ago in the "Tea With Olga" clouds: dalneitzel.com/book-of-blazes-dg2/She noted "22356" but it looked more like either "227356" or "223356" to me (I noted the former to her on Dal's in the comments below back in Feb. 2018). don’t see much there myself but maybe others do. www.numberempire.com/22356Diggin somehow came up with the idea that that number hinted to a longitude near West Yellowstone, though I see no way to come up with that. I thought maybe a zipcode, but zips starting with 22 are all in VA, and I don't think that zipcode is assigned. |
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Post by thrillchaser on Feb 28, 2020 8:07:26 GMT -5
seems she was trying force a confirmation. you can find anything to fit a theory.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2020 6:50:36 GMT -5
Concur, Jenny. Page 99 was done by a war correspondent who was once a backseater in Forrest's F-100F. Some may not have seen this e-mail explanation from Forrest in late February 2018: "The drawing on page 99 was made by a war correspondent/combat illustrator whose initials are JF. I was an instructor pilot in Vietnam, which meant it was my job to take non pilots on combat missions so they could see what war is really like, mostly high ranking military officers and war correspondents. I flew with that JF guy in the back seat of my F-100F. I'm sure I knew his name when we flew in 1968, but when I wrote TFTW, forty two, or so years later, his name had escaped me… "That drawing is not a map of any kind and I did not draw it… "I spent some time looking for JF because I wanted to send him a copy of my book. I could not find him. I even advertised in the Air Force Times for information about him and came up with zero. I think he was a civilian, but don't remember. I figured if he ever saw my book he would contact me. If you want to launch a serious search I think he could be located if he is still alive." Is this email explanation online any place? Or is this 3rd party? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2020 7:20:07 GMT -5
We are told only the poem is necessary, but clues in the book (TTOTC) hold subtle hints to help find Forrest's Treasure.... So what about those illustrations? Do you think the images of the book hold clues? Teacher halting warm water
This image is in the same chapter with most of the warm words in TTOTC And that is a sketch of Forrest's old car. |
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Post by zaphod73491 on Feb 29, 2020 21:02:06 GMT -5
Hi anomy: it was on Chasechat from Mindy at a time when I think we can trust it to be legit. But yes, it's 3rd party info that Forrest didn't post himself.
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Post by thrillchaser on Mar 1, 2020 21:11:48 GMT -5
so why are we to think he put ynp in there.
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Post by zaphod73491 on Mar 1, 2020 22:40:36 GMT -5
so why are we to think he put ynp in there. Could be multiple reasons. An homage to a favorite place, Forrest's own personal "Rosebud" (Citizen Kane), and/or a hint to the treasure's location. Even if the car's windows were indeed doctored by Forrest (and just to be clear, there is no solid evidence that he did so), then the only way we'd have any confidence that this wasn't just a more likely case of pareidolia was if he did it more than once. So did he? Does SB 173 add any fuel to the speculation? |
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Post by Jenny on Mar 2, 2020 10:37:41 GMT -5
dalneitzel.com/2017/04/07/scrapbook-one-hundred-seventy-three/I am an imaginative person, and I understand what you are showing Zap, and while possible, certainly not conclusive in any way....... I'm sure if we looked (because of areas we favored), we could find other letters, in multiple places, which would indicate totally different areas..... I'm very cautious of any 'interpretational' conclusions...
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Post by zaphod73491 on Mar 2, 2020 20:24:08 GMT -5
Hi Jenny: no "hint" from Forrest, in isolation, is going to ever be conclusive. That would be tantamount to a shortcut. Forrest is careful to give you just enough rope to hang yourself. ;-)
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Post by Jenny on Mar 2, 2020 20:43:35 GMT -5
Hi Jenny: no "hint" from Forrest, in isolation, is going to ever be conclusive. That would be tantamount to a shortcut. Forrest is careful to give you just enough rope to hang yourself. ;-) I agree.....but if you are suggesting those YNP are 'hints', I bet I could find just as many TAOS 'hints'..... And to say, I'm not 'for' one or the other....just stating a fact..... |
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Post by zaphod73491 on Mar 2, 2020 20:51:34 GMT -5
Jenny: challenge accepted. ;-) Let me know when you get to 50 hints for Taos. ;-)
P.S.: Do you think there is a stone or log in New Mexico that is more than 66,000 links north of the northernmost limits of Santa Fe, above 5,000 feet in elevation, below 10,200 feet in elevation, has sage nearby, and is not on Native American land that Cynthia hasn't turned over? ;-) I'm actually only half-joking. And for the four that Cynthia missed, how 'bout adding the ones Sacha searched? ;-)
If the treasure is in New Mexico, I will never find it. And I do mean never.
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Post by Jenny on Mar 2, 2020 22:18:08 GMT -5
lol...... New Mexico has been searched as thoroughly as Wyoming and Montana's favorite locations. Which is to say, no location has even come close to being thoroughly searched. I'm surprised you would think that.....we don't live in 'That' small of a world.....
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Post by Jenny on Mar 2, 2020 22:26:34 GMT -5
Have you ever searched for geocaches? There are coordinates given to the EXACT location, and they can still be difficult to find....and a searcher even knows for sure they have the correct location.
In the case of Forrest's treasure chest, if there is any bit of doubt (and almost always there is), it could cause someone to 'miss the obvious and walk right by it'.... give up and move on.....
I've seen it happen in many other hunts for things.... not just geocaches, but other botg hunts...... I wouldn't trust that any place is thoroughly searched.
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