I thouhgt I was the only one that fealt a little uneasy reading that post about the family and 10 year old girl after his comment to macfos.

JoshCornell1

cry me a river little baby.

Mac told you he loved them
Why don’t you leave them all alone
Why don’t you tell him to meet you
And you can call him on the phone
He’ll refuse, you must have him confused
With some other guy
Your bridges were burned
And now it’s your turn

Okay, that’s it for me as well. I have avoided engaging with Josh, but now I’m taking the further step of adding him to my squelch list so I won’t have to read this juvenile misogyny piled on top of his usual useless posts. If anyone does have moderator status, I encourage you to ban him. For the rest of you, please stop replying to his posts and squelch him if you can’t stop yourselves from feeding the troll. The schadenfreude of his picaresque travesty of a casque tour has lost its charm.
If you’re wondering how it will all turn out, I foresee one of these possible endgames:
1) “The real treasure was back home all along”
2) “The physical casques are just more red herrings. The real solutions point to completely different locations, known only to me!”
3) A relative creates an account and posts here to tell us Josh is getting the help he needs and asks us to please not indulge his fantasy life if he relapses and gets internet access once more

Actually that was not my post. It is from another member you offended. But your post was the reason I decided not to meet you.
Regards,
Mac

JoshCornell1

this is actually one of the most vegan friendly towns ive ever been to!!! especially in and around spring st! i absolutely love this town. i want to move here…hey mac…what i really want to know is…how hot is your wife? and would you put in a good word with your daughter for me…i mean, as long as shes of age and all. lololol

I’d like to invite you to the SA thread about this. That kind of banter goes over okay, over there.
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showt … id=3552196
That said, we don’t talk like this, here. Please stop.

Unknown

Unknown:
But we both know you aren’t.

So, you know the kid isn’t right, but you just can’t help piling on? Josh has issues. What’s your excuse?

drunknerds

I’d like to invite you to the SA thread about this. That kind of banter goes over okay, over there.
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showt … id=3552196
That said, we don’t talk like this, here. Please stop.

Can’t we at least have ONE safe space?

Woah. Holy shit, I didn’t pay attention to his comment.
Dude, I could tell you fell somewhere on the spectrum, thats why I gave you some slack. When you interupted presentations at the foy, pushing people out of the way and talking over presenters so you could explain your theories while pointing your camera at some random sign. Not once, but twice.
I get it. You have to touch wood. Anything wood. Trees, fences, lamposts, poles that look wooden but are actually concrete… Its your thing, I get it. But do you have to push tourists out of your way to do it?
Do you have to shove yourself in between a tourist couple just so you can get a shot of a map they were standing in front of?
They didn’t want to hear your theories about the puzzle, they didn’t care that you knew everything. They were Asian Josh, they didn’t give a shit.
But after explaining to them how you knew everything about that map, they could tell how pissed you were when I asked you to point out where you were, and I told you you were pointing at the wrong place.
“The casque is here”
“Well josh, that’s jacksonville, so…”
I can’t imagine what would cause someone to act the way you do, or say the things you say. You have to know Its wrong. You have to know that people aren’t going to like you or respect you because of it.
I hope you’re ashamed of yourself.
I hope you’re sitting there tonight in your hostel, alone and ashamed.
But we both know you aren’t.

JoshCornell1

i dont know what im doing, but at least i know when preiss is specifically telling me its not somewhere.

At least you got the first half right.

Goldengate

Dear Josh,
Speaking as a husband and a father, if you ever spoke — or wrote about my WiFE or KID that way, you’d better hope to become harder to find than a casque… because I would find you and dig a hole just for you. You went way over the line with that post. You should be ashamed.
Isn’t there a moderator or administrator here? Didn’t someone kick him out before? Isn’t it apparent by now that Josh is a VERY mentally disturbed person? Isn’t it plain as day that his threads/ theories / “solves” are a complete bullS*** and frankly the content of his post above (among others) crossed every line in the book. I don’t know if he’s on the spectrum with asbergers, or something worse, but this forum has always been the platinum standard in discussions about The Secret. There are spirited disagreements, punking, virtual hair pulling, etc — that’s all fine, whatever — it’s always been in service of accomplishing a shared goal! But Josh is sick in his head… he’s ONLY in his head. Josh’s hunt, or quest or documentary, or whatever doesn’t have anything to do with the The Secret… it’s part of his illness and this forum unfortunately has become an echo chamber for his delusions.
I’m all about disruptors, and am THRILLED by all the new energy brought in by newer hunters who recently found the book through Expedition Unknown — but new members coming to these forums looking for real information, instead are finding find Josh’s unhinged rants and delusions as if that’s what this place is about. Does anyone here really think that’s moving forward the discussion? If Josh was a Beautiful Mind and he was correct… even once… sure – okay, let’s hear him out. But he’s not. His solves, his 1×1 casque locations… they’re all bs. We knew they were insane before, but we KNOW that now. He’s 0-4 and his latest excuse was a police conspiracy. Come on, we’re better than keeping something like that around.
Counting Josh’s two different accounts, he’s been here a total of one month and has posted more than 600 TIMES. I think that says something.
I implore the moderator / administrator — it’s time to mute Josh. He’s not doing this forum… or frankly himself any good. He’s a truly sick person – if this is his quest, let him have it, but don’t let this excellent forum get held hostage by the delusional world that exists in his head any longer.
We can move the discussion forward, we can disagree, but I think everyone knows keeping him here isn’t healthy.
Thank you for listening… and Josh, before you type in your knee-jerk reply, just please, think about reaching out for help. You’re an adult, you know there’s truth to this. You must have had your mental health addressed before… it’s time to reach out to get yourself well — go in, check your meds, get therapy — you’re flailing, unhinged. But even so, posts like the one you made above… if that’s what you’re all about even with a mental illness, that makes you a sad, lonely and repugnant person.
I’m only 44 but I’ll sound like an old man here by repeating it again: you should be ashamed of yourself.

JoshCornell1

the very first clue of the puzzle negates the spot (and grounds you in it) as the potential dig site…
fucking doofuses.

?? Not clear what you mean,
so Where M&B are set in stone the first line in the verse ends up being 400 feet from the casque negates it as a potential dig site?
or where the road curves between two countries negates the greek cultural garden as a dig site?

JoshCornell1

wtf are you on? crack? heroine? meth?
why are you talking about other puzzles that have literally no relevance to this one…

I see you feel that there is not a method that works the same from casque to casque.

JoshCornell1

every puzzle is designed a bit differently.

I guess the question is besides your amazing logical mind, how do you know that?

burnstyle

I can’t honestly see ANYONE who is a veteran here doing that.
Dig sites and times get shared pretty regularly and no one else has had this problem in the past.

Hey guys, I’m BRAND NEW here and want to say for the official record that I also did not and would not do that.

JoshCornell1

they are absolutely not carbon copies of one another…not even close.
i thought egbert showed the cleveland solve i sent him to you guys?

We don’t know that. On some level there will be a shared underlying principle component. That doesn’t mean Preiss can’t improvise something unique to the vision with regards to each specific setting.
maltedfalcon is upholding a standard that is based in verifiable evidence. He could be wrong about some things, but his approach seems to hold more water than anything else we’ve seen to date.

JoshCornell1

known where the treasure is for a while now though

Is it in a Cemetery or a private flower bed again?

JoshCornell1

cause ive completely mapped out all of them cept san fran and im damn near finished on that after yesterday.

you told me you had them all mapped out except for Boston!
So what changed in SF?

MrSeabass

St. Augustine isn’t Charleston.
Also I wanna thank burnstyle for the photo just in case I feel like being a dick and forwarding it to county as a BOLO for a crazy man digging for ‘treasure’.
Nazis? How ignorant are you?

As soon as you walk into white point gardens, from any entrance, there are these huge signs that say they will prosecute you for digging or using a metal detector.
Charleston is serious about that shit. Maybe more so than st Aug.

JoshCornell1

Nazis? How ignorant are you?

isnt charleston where the nazis and antifa punks went at it?
That’s charlottesville.
Jesus…

JoshCornell1

just rolled into town, was only awake for the last bit (still so damn tired)…but it was pretty f’n beautiful!

Good luck today!!

Unknown

Unknown:
i roll in at 830 am.

Charleston is a beautiful city. I hope you find what you’re looking for.
Enjoy.

Unknown

Unknown:
know any places to eat breakfast with vegan options?

The last time I was there I ate BBQ, and the time before that it was steak, so I’m probably not the best person to ask. A quick Google search, however, suggests that you should have no problem finding good places to eat.
Good luck.

Downtown there is “another broken egg cafe”… then there are jimmy dean breakfast sandwiches at the gas station.
The vegan hippie thing is not alive and well in Charleston. Most cling to bibles and guns. Just make sure your manners are in check. This is the original old south. We treat everyone with respect unless you ass out. Then the consequences begin.
Hope to meet up with you Josh.
Best regards,
Mac

JoshCornell1

currently eating at…and it’s vegan…
!

That’s ironically fitting.

JoshCornell1

so who called the cops

No way? FFS.

I asked around – nobody says they did it but someone brought up a good point
If you went to city hall , asked for permission and got denied…
Then chances are City hall reported you just in case… makes more sense than a picture, they would have had your exact description today.

I can’t honestly see ANYONE who is a veteran here doing that.
Dig sites and times get shared pretty regularly and no one else has had this problem in the past.

JoshCornell1

so who was it…my first guesses would be seabass and maltedfalcon, though that would be super hypocritical on MF’s side.

Sorry, wasn’t me, although I did offer a beer to whoever ‘fessed’ up
So I guess I owe you a beer.
I wouldn’t know who to contact in Charleston, But I sure do in SF. Don’t dig in SF without permission. That being said, getting permission is easy, just plan ahead.

It wasn’t me, I have better things to , but I am flatter that you thought of me!!!! I am focused on SF and SF only at the moment.

MrSeabass

Bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit.
How old are you? 7? Do you really think ‘City Hall’ is just one really large building where someone sits on a throne, and you simply walk up and ask Mr. or Mrs. City Hall to do something, and then they waive their hand and makes it so? How fucking gullible do you think we all are? Do you not understand that it can take up to MONTHS to get permission to dig somewhere in Charleston – and that’s with lots of academic support, documentation, back-and-forth discussions.
But nooooooooooooooo, some homeless bum walked up the marble steps to the GREAT CITY HALL where they were welcomed with open arms and got permission.
Go back to Canada before you end up with a felony, asshole.

Charleston isn’t exactly a big city, or even a city at all really. I wouldn’t think it would be too difficult to just walk in and ask questions there….and this is coming from someone who deals with city hall for work…in a city city.
Also, why is he homeless? I think we are all a little homeless when we travel….

strike13

Also, why is he homeless? I think we are all a little homeless when we travel….

Lol, with each city, the Legend of Josh grows.
And, yeah, I think most of us here WANT you to dig up a casque… if only to give more info on how solves are done.
We just find your demeanor really off-putting.

Goonie68

I am focused on SF and SF only at the moment.

This is a good point, me too, but every thing I come up with in SF I run through the filter of the known and unknown casques,
I.e if I say this is a clue in SF would something similar show up as a clue in chicago or cleveland
or If I say I will get from point a to point b in SF how does the current ideas in Charleston, ST Augustine or Boston reflect on that idea…

MrSeabass

I take it you didn’t see his photo.
You know how I know you’ve never been to Charleston?

I did and I have. I’m a lover not a fighter. I was just feeling bad for whoever called on him that’s all
I think you’re funny Seabass
Happy tuesday everyone! What a beautiful day outside…great for exploring clues and digging!

I did and I have. I’m a lover not a fighter. I was just feeling bad for whoever called on him that’s all
I think you’re funny Seabass
Happy tuesday everyone! What a beautiful day outside…great for exploring clues and digging!
Rephrase…feeling bad for Josh, not for the caller

JoshCornell1

i completely mapped out boston already…its some weird ass easter egg shit i havent gotten yet…it may fast track you to the final location (in general) but its not required to map out the puzzle in any way.

I’ve done tons of mapping all over Boston for years. Never found a casque. That is something we have in common.

JoshCornell1

i havent been able to see the damn shadow either day so im left estimating here…bruuuuuutal. i have it down to a fucking sandbox too.

Josh, Download Skywalk for your phone. IT will show you the location of the sun in realtime or at any time you choose
so you will be able to figure out exactly where a shadow would fall (and its length) at noon even if you were there in the middle of the night.
quit throwing up your own roadblocks.

JoshCornell1

the box is ONLY 1.5 ft deep.

LOL OK I will bite, how do you know the box is only 1.5 feet deep?

OK

He knows because 1.5 ft is “…at a depth of no more than three to three and one-half feet” (The Secret, p. 219).
Seriously Josh, I would dig deeper than 1.5 feet. It’s easier to hide from cops in a 3-ft hole than a 1.5-ft hole.
That does raise a point though – wouldn’t that wording imply that at least one of the casques is buried about 3 feet deep? That’s pretty deep and hard to dig, unless the ground is extremely soft.

forest_blight

He knows because 1.5 ft is “…at a depth of no more than three to three and one-half feet” (The Secret, p. 219).
Seriously Josh, I would dig deeper than 1.5 feet. It’s easier to hide from cops in a 3-ft hole than a 1.5-ft hole.
That does raise a point though – wouldn’t that wording imply that at least one of the casques is buried about 3 feet deep? That’s pretty deep and hard to dig, unless the ground is extremely soft.

It does imply that, and that brings up the question did he mean the top, middle or bottom was at 3-1/2 feet?
It is possible since the casque vaults are 7 inches tall, at one point he dug a 4 foot hole and dropped the casque in.
imagine having the correct solution and being right on top of it and missing it by 6 inches…
Its why I always dig to 4 feet unless I hit a physical limit.

Unknown

Unknown:
That’s pretty deep and hard to dig, unless the ground is extremely soft.

Absent a lot of roots, rocks, and other obstructions, which Preiss could have ruled out by probing first, I estimate it would have taken him no more than 10 minutes to bury a casque, start to finish, no matter the soil conditions. Remember, he knew exactly where he wanted the hole to be, and had all day (and night if necessary) to accomplish what is essentially a very simple task with the right tools. Having said that, most of the holes I’ve dug have been in the 2-2.5 depth range, but I always probe the bottom and sides and explore any additional hits I get.