Hello everyone, sorry about the new topic, but I thought this would be cool. What inspired you to treasure hunt, or what got you so interested? Me, the movie "National Treasure" and Michael Stadther's "A Treasure's Trove". -regulus

A Treasure's Trove (duh - my forum monicker is Forest Blight). Hungry for more, I latched onto The Secret because it involves pictures and riddles, and not much in the way of codes. I don't have a head for codes. Eventually I learned how truly wonderful these armchair hunts can be after reading the magnificent Masquerade by Kit Williams, the first of its genre, and a treasure hunt book that can never be equalled.

Unless of course by 'Menagerie' ( the 25 year anniversary tribute ), now in play on Q4T. Whoops, I seem to have swapped channels..

The first treasure hunt I ever saw was "Who killed the Robins Family" a book that promised a $10K reward to anyone who found out the answer to the title question. I don'teven  remember who killed them, honestly--I no longer have the book. There were sequels, I believe.  But it got me started and I've never stopped. I've participated in the initial one, above, and then the tapes: Money Hunt was next. Had that one right, but wasn't the first entry. Then "Treasure, the Search for the Lost Horse" on which I must have spent at least 2000 hours of research and literally wore out one VCR. That one I wasn't even close--well, I was and I wasn't. I don't believe the hunt was run fairly and the puzzle was unbelieveably difficult. I doubt anyone really had a shot at that one. Then, of course, came Masquerade and The Bee on the Comb. The Merlin Mystery. Key to the Kingdom (answers should not be in a foreign language. They should NOT.) There have been others, too numerous to mention. This is a hobby of mine, and it's one of those constant hobbies that you do when you're not doing other things, like writing the great American novel and scaling Mt. Everest, or climbing the Eiffel Tower in shower shoes. Then, and now, The Secret, The Whistle Pig, Alchemist Dar. I'm something of an ATH slut, I guess. c

Well, as for me, I started with Treasure, the search for the golden horse by Dr. Krypton. I got very involved for a year or so with it, and spent 8 days in Oregon digging for it. Alas, nothing. But,... then i went on to other puzzles like Maze, etc. , then dropped off for years, till I found these web sites a couple of years ago (missed ATT, about 7 or 8 were found when I found the sites). Anyway, looking for an interesting puzzle to work on till the next big thing hit, I found The Secret. Been hooked on it since...

When I was a kid, my grandmother sent me a copy of Masquerade .  She also sent me a newspaper article or two about the Beale treasure.

I was a noobie for the Kit Williams two books. I had a subscription to GAMES magazine and thoroughly ate up their Nation Wide scavenger hunts - gong into a drawing for prizes both times. Then went to College and help establish U of Chicago's now famous annual scavenger hunt. I went cold for while I worked, drank, get married...etc.... Then I bought Mysterious Stranger and found out that Treasurer Hunting had come to the internet and the boards.... boy I was thrilled I could annoy thousands (and the creators) with simple key strokes. After drying out from that adventure, I looked back and found other hunts that had some history - The Secret seems ot have something for everyone - since it is really not just one puzzle - so working together is simple not just competing - but collaborating. Also, being a pat rack (esp. from my Scavenger Hunt days) I have almanacs and historical crap from years and years gone by.  So, it is not just research, but first hand knowledge from these sources from when it was. Times change, things get lost - funs remains the one thing we all are searching for

Hi, I'm new to this whole treasure hunt activity. I have always been interested in stuff like this since movies like Indiana Jones  and National Treasure came out. Little did I know that there where actual hunts set up and taking place. Since january I've ordered and been looking into the Alchemist Dar hunt and The Secret (I just received the book form Amazon yesterday). Its cool that so many people are still trying to find these casques 20 years later. I'm pretty quiet, read the boards often and I've found that it is easy to convince yourself you have the clues figured out. I'm in Southern California so I'll be working on image 1 most of the time.  Good luck to everybody and I hope we find these 10 that are left soon!

jwhelms wrote:: I'm pretty quiet, read the boards often and I've found that it is easy to convince yourself you have the clues figured out. I'm in Southern California so I'll be working on image 1 most of the time.  Good luck to everybody and I hope we find these 10 that are left soon! Very astute!  And welcome to the Secret jwhelms.  Feel free to challange any and all ideas.  I have pretty much convinced myself at least 3 times, yet no casque yet.  Good luck.

Hi, Back in 1996 I was on a family Vacation in Alberta Canada, and Picked up a dog-eared copy of "The Secret" off of a take a book-leave a book shelf in the Edmonton Youth hostel. I was drawn to the illustrations and enjoyed it for the whimsicle nature of the desriptions of modern fairy folk. Fast forward 11 years to last week. I was sorting out some things to give away and almost decided to part with it, then I decided to check where everyone had found the treasures. It's been more than 20 years and less then 1/2 of the treasures have been recovered! Time to get on it! (I'm also a part time Pirate Captain, and prepair treasure hunts when I can) corvus7corax