Post by luiscatala on Jun 21, 2020 5:41:50 GMT -5
Hi, I’m Luis Catalá from Spain.
Last month I wanted to go to New Mexico in search of the treasure after the melting of the snow, but the coronavirus pandemic and the closing of borders prevented me from traveling. The discovery of the treasure has been the last straw for me. Congratulations to the finder.
Anyway, once the treasure has been found, and Forrest Fenn has not revealed where the chess was, I would like to make known my solution to the poem, a “Spanish solution”, because as a Spanish speaker, I think half the clues in the poem are related to my language. If you consider that the blaze is the key clue, I dare say that the blaze is Lucero Peak, New Mexico, as in Spanish a lucero is a white stain on the face of an animal, that is, a blaze. The two terms also mean brightness in both languages.
So let’s start the “Spanish solution” and the journey from the beginning. You can easily follow it from Google Earth.
Red River is our starting point. Red is a warm color, so its waters are warm. They halt when they meet Río Grande, and this place is the beginning of a canyon. Not far from the end of this canyon is Arroyo Seco town. Here there are some art galleries that Forrest Fenn surely has frequently visited. Arroyo Seco translates as Dry Creek (no paddle up this creek). On the outskirts of this town there is a guesthouse called Casa Truchas, Trout House in English (Home of Brown). The big mountain presiding over the town is Lucero Peak (the blaze), if you look quickly down you will find El Salto del Agua wood. Salto del agua translates as waterfall (water high). Arriving at this place the road is no longer tarred (tarry scant). I know some seekers have been searching for the treasure in these waterfalls without success. I think the trove was in this little wood, not in the falls. Once in the wood, finding the trove is a matter of boots on the ground, and my boots are in Spain...
In any case, in this wood there is an ancient ruin forming a spiral of stones (heavy loads) that an archeologist as Forrest surely knows, and I think this would be a beautiful place where to hide a treasure and die.
To support this “Spanish solution”, I would like to show how the coordinates of that very place can be obtained from the TTOTC postmarks too. After all, Forrest only said that some people thought that the coordinates were encoded in the postmarks, not that they were not.
The coordinates of this little wood are 36º 31’ xx‘’ N 105º 32’ xx’’ W
I studied the postmarks because I think there must necessarily be some kind of message in them, otherwise I don’t know what sense they make in the book.
In all postmarks the days of the week are wrong. I think these are purposeful mistakes made by Forrest to make decoding a little more difficult
.
The first postmark (page 16) is: Monday 16 Sep 1936
16 Sep 1936 was not a Monday, but a Wednesday, as you can check in a perpetual calendar. That is, the fourth day of the week.
So Wednesday 16 Sep 1936 is equivalent to 4, 16, 9, 1936
Now we can calculate what mathematicians call digital root of a number
We add all numbers 4 + 16 + 9 + 1936 = 1965 (by the way, this is my car’s license number LOL)
We add the resulting figures again 1 + 9 + 6 + 5 = 21
And once again 2 + 1 = 3 to obtain the first digit of the named latitude
The second postmark (page 22) is: Sunday 2 Sep 1943
That day was not a Sunday but a Thursday, so 5, 2, 9, 1943
5 + 2 + 9 + 1943 = 1959
1 + 9 + 5 + 9 = 24
2 + 4 = 6 the second digit of the named latitude
The third postmark (page 28) is: Thursday 25 Aug 1937
That day was not a Thursday but a Wednesday, so 4, 25, 8, 1937
4 + 25 + 8 + 1937 = 1974
1 + 9 + 7 + 4 = 21
2 + 1 = 3 the third digit of the named latitude
The next postmark (page 34) is illegible, so we simply skip it
The fourth postmark (page 36) is: Wednesday 15 Apr 1938
That day was not a Wednesday but a Friday, so 6, 15, 4, 1938
6 + 15 + 4 + 1938 = 1963
1 + 9 + 6 + 3 = 19
1 + 9 = 10
1 + 0 = 1 the fourth digit of the named latitude
I know it could all be just a coincidence, but the probability of matching four digits by chance is very low, 1 in 10000, and I think this is a point in favor of the “Spanish solution”.
Now I have to say that I couldn’t decipher any longitude of this place. I suspect that Forrest simply did not leave any hidden longitude so as not to make the search too easy, but maybe someone can find the coded longitude, if there is any...
Kind regards
Last month I wanted to go to New Mexico in search of the treasure after the melting of the snow, but the coronavirus pandemic and the closing of borders prevented me from traveling. The discovery of the treasure has been the last straw for me. Congratulations to the finder.
Anyway, once the treasure has been found, and Forrest Fenn has not revealed where the chess was, I would like to make known my solution to the poem, a “Spanish solution”, because as a Spanish speaker, I think half the clues in the poem are related to my language. If you consider that the blaze is the key clue, I dare say that the blaze is Lucero Peak, New Mexico, as in Spanish a lucero is a white stain on the face of an animal, that is, a blaze. The two terms also mean brightness in both languages.
So let’s start the “Spanish solution” and the journey from the beginning. You can easily follow it from Google Earth.
Red River is our starting point. Red is a warm color, so its waters are warm. They halt when they meet Río Grande, and this place is the beginning of a canyon. Not far from the end of this canyon is Arroyo Seco town. Here there are some art galleries that Forrest Fenn surely has frequently visited. Arroyo Seco translates as Dry Creek (no paddle up this creek). On the outskirts of this town there is a guesthouse called Casa Truchas, Trout House in English (Home of Brown). The big mountain presiding over the town is Lucero Peak (the blaze), if you look quickly down you will find El Salto del Agua wood. Salto del agua translates as waterfall (water high). Arriving at this place the road is no longer tarred (tarry scant). I know some seekers have been searching for the treasure in these waterfalls without success. I think the trove was in this little wood, not in the falls. Once in the wood, finding the trove is a matter of boots on the ground, and my boots are in Spain...
In any case, in this wood there is an ancient ruin forming a spiral of stones (heavy loads) that an archeologist as Forrest surely knows, and I think this would be a beautiful place where to hide a treasure and die.
To support this “Spanish solution”, I would like to show how the coordinates of that very place can be obtained from the TTOTC postmarks too. After all, Forrest only said that some people thought that the coordinates were encoded in the postmarks, not that they were not.
The coordinates of this little wood are 36º 31’ xx‘’ N 105º 32’ xx’’ W
I studied the postmarks because I think there must necessarily be some kind of message in them, otherwise I don’t know what sense they make in the book.
In all postmarks the days of the week are wrong. I think these are purposeful mistakes made by Forrest to make decoding a little more difficult
.
The first postmark (page 16) is: Monday 16 Sep 1936
16 Sep 1936 was not a Monday, but a Wednesday, as you can check in a perpetual calendar. That is, the fourth day of the week.
So Wednesday 16 Sep 1936 is equivalent to 4, 16, 9, 1936
Now we can calculate what mathematicians call digital root of a number
We add all numbers 4 + 16 + 9 + 1936 = 1965 (by the way, this is my car’s license number LOL)
We add the resulting figures again 1 + 9 + 6 + 5 = 21
And once again 2 + 1 = 3 to obtain the first digit of the named latitude
The second postmark (page 22) is: Sunday 2 Sep 1943
That day was not a Sunday but a Thursday, so 5, 2, 9, 1943
5 + 2 + 9 + 1943 = 1959
1 + 9 + 5 + 9 = 24
2 + 4 = 6 the second digit of the named latitude
The third postmark (page 28) is: Thursday 25 Aug 1937
That day was not a Thursday but a Wednesday, so 4, 25, 8, 1937
4 + 25 + 8 + 1937 = 1974
1 + 9 + 7 + 4 = 21
2 + 1 = 3 the third digit of the named latitude
The next postmark (page 34) is illegible, so we simply skip it
The fourth postmark (page 36) is: Wednesday 15 Apr 1938
That day was not a Wednesday but a Friday, so 6, 15, 4, 1938
6 + 15 + 4 + 1938 = 1963
1 + 9 + 6 + 3 = 19
1 + 9 = 10
1 + 0 = 1 the fourth digit of the named latitude
I know it could all be just a coincidence, but the probability of matching four digits by chance is very low, 1 in 10000, and I think this is a point in favor of the “Spanish solution”.
Now I have to say that I couldn’t decipher any longitude of this place. I suspect that Forrest simply did not leave any hidden longitude so as not to make the search too easy, but maybe someone can find the coded longitude, if there is any...
Kind regards
