|
|
Post by Bownarrow on Apr 23, 2020 1:49:46 GMT -5
"People will be surprised when they find out where it is."
Apparently this is something ff said in an e-mail to Shaun Whitehead early on in the Chase.
The vast majority of places that have been touted as the hiding place of the chest would not leave me feeling surprised if the chest was actually found there.
If it were to be found in a spot that seems to contradict a literal interpretaion of one or many of his statements that, on the other hand, would leave me surprised. For that reason (and a few others), I have focused on an out-of-the-box type thinking approach to solving the puzzle. The problem now is that I've created a paradox for myself in that there really is nowhere that the chest could be that would leave me surprised!
|
|
|
|
Post by voxpops on Apr 23, 2020 3:30:40 GMT -5
A Surprize is ... a dish ... which promising little from its first appearance, when open abounds with all sorts of variety. [W. King, "Cookery," 1708] Pandora, anyone? I think there may be something very surprising about the entire enterprise (enter prize?), particularly if and when the big picture is known and understood. I don't like the idea of tossing my bike in the water high, though; fly-tipping is a real problem where I come from!  |
|
|
|
Post by miracleman on Apr 23, 2020 5:05:36 GMT -5
Could it simply be because it’s no where near as remote as most would think? In fact it may be near a heavily trafficked area?
|
|
|
|
Post by voxpops on Apr 23, 2020 5:16:13 GMT -5
Where can you imagine FF would hide it? Imagination plays a big part in this, IMO.
|
|
|
|
Post by me9 on Apr 23, 2020 7:36:44 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by brianu on Apr 23, 2020 8:47:39 GMT -5
Imo, frfc, I think it's gonna be the best part of the chase. Not because I'll get to see the chest, but because of the ending and conclusion itself. I've always enjoyed the surprise endings, were everyone realized what subtle things stimmied them.
|
|
|
|
Post by seannm on Apr 23, 2020 8:53:58 GMT -5
LOL, do you think many people would be surprised if it was found in Yellowstone? NOPE!
Oh my God! Why didn't I think that it could be in Yellowstone? LOL.
|
|
|
|
Post by brianu on Apr 23, 2020 9:18:31 GMT -5
Yeah, definitely not the Yellowstone, it's only the first national treasure the United States has besides that constitution. Definitely not an old treasure to countless generations, and definitely not a major water source for the nation as a whole. After all it's the place everyone just passed on by. Even ol Lewis and Clark just wandered on by. Why would he send searchers there anyway, there's all sorts of animals and hot water that shoots up in the sky as steam, that sounds dangerous.!!
|
|
vibeup
Junior Member
Hindsight is 2020
Posts: 60 
|
Post by vibeup on Apr 23, 2020 9:30:17 GMT -5
Could it simply be because it’s no where near as remote as most would think? In fact it may be near a heavily trafficked area? If the chest was found near a trafficked area, nearly all searchers would be surprised regardless of the actual location. Remember how in the early years people would hike 5+ miles into the woods looking for their blaze? I think we all know now that it's hidden less than a mile from the parking spot. Forrest once said that searchers are looking so far ahead that they're missing what's right in front of them. My general theory is that the starting point of the chase has at least a moderate amount of human traffic. Possibly a trail-head for a popular hike with some type of overlook. This could explain how searchers arrived at the starting point but didn't know they were at WWWH. Those that didn't solve the first two clues may have been there simply because it's a popular trail and is in close proximity to a popular search area. Both types of searchers walk to the top and come back empty-handed going right past the chest each way. |
|
|
|
Post by voxpops on Apr 23, 2020 9:34:06 GMT -5
Could it simply be because it’s no where near as remote as most would think? In fact it may be near a heavily trafficked area? Forrest once said that searchers are looking so far ahead that they're missing what's right in front of them. Didn't he say that they're looking so far into the "future?" That shifts the meaning subtly, and it's a word that most people seem to overlook, tending to read it as a distance measurement rather than time. |
|
|
|
Post by goldilocks on Apr 23, 2020 10:13:06 GMT -5
The surprise may come from how it's hidden, not where just saying.
|
|
|
|
Post by voxpops on Apr 23, 2020 10:20:10 GMT -5
The surprise may come from how it's hidden, not where just saying. Maybe. And possibly how it can be accessed. |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2020 10:31:00 GMT -5
"People will be surprised when they find out where it is." Maybe it needs attached to Forrest's recent "Big surprises coming".
|
|
|
|
Post by seannm on Apr 23, 2020 12:57:21 GMT -5
Could it simply be because it’s no where near as remote as most would think? In fact it may be near a heavily trafficked area? If the chest was found near a trafficked area, nearly all searchers would be surprised regardless of the actual location. Remember how in the early years people would hike 5+ miles into the woods looking for their blaze? I think we all know now that it's hidden less than a mile from the parking spot. Forrest once said that searchers are looking so far ahead that they're missing what's right in front of them. My general theory is that the starting point of the chase has at least a moderate amount of human traffic. Possibly a trail-head for a popular hike with some type of overlook. This could explain how searchers arrived at the starting point but didn't know they were at WWWH. Those that didn't solve the first two clues may have been there simply because it's a popular trail and is in close proximity to a popular search area. Both types of searchers walk to the top and come back empty-handed going right past the chest each way.
My general theory is that the starting point of the chase has at least a moderate amount of human traffic. Possibly a trail-head for a popular hike with some type of overlook.Now that is something I can somewhat agree with, especially when you marry that to Forrest's remark, in Kpro/Cow's interview: "I felt lucky that no one was around when I hid the treasure" (paraphrased). So the area from where he parked his car to the actual starting point that the poem may be inferring in its words "from there" may be as you say, a moderately trafficked area, like a trail head or popular hike. And that area, from the parking spot to the starting point may not be the isolated area that a person would not normally go, but from there may be the place that a person would not normally go, that is if they are meek. Good thinking there vibeup! Seannm |
|
|
|
Post by thetreasurehunter on Apr 23, 2020 19:25:22 GMT -5
"People will be surprised when they find out where it is." Maybe it needs attached to Forrest's recent "Big surprises coming". I know I know. Nonetheless I search in June and either you or I will be surprised!  Either I find it or I don't. |
|
Either I find it or I don't.