Yes my name is Chris Johnson, of Terre Haute Indiana. I was the first to introduced several things. One being that there is a thirteenth casque. Pages 17 and 24 of the book I believe mentions it twice. It is also referred to in many more ways.. also I believe I have broken all codes in the verses and the images. The thirteenth was planned for in advance. One line of each verse applies not only to that puzzle but to the thirteenth. Example of this is:. In the Milwaukee verse it says to ,"climb the the 92........". Also it says. After. ". Climbing the grand 200". Well Preiss did not have to reference the same thing twice.. do. You get it now!!!!. One line refers to the thirteenth. ALSO... The thirteenth is referenced in all images. I now know where the city is for the 13th. I believe I have gotten six of the 12 lines out of the verses. The thirteenth casque planned for , but I believed it was buried last. There is no key in this burial. It is a treasure waiting.... The winner of the thirteenth would be probably the only one to even know about it. I am older now. And in not good health. So I am spreading the word of a real American treasure that I know exists. Maybe there were others involved with Mr. Preiss. That is what I believe.

I also want to set the record straight. A few people have asked me what city that I believed the 13th was buried. Once I said St.Louis,. Then anither time I said Washington. But truth is the 13th is buried in the Black Hills. I really honestly believe close to Rapid city. My thoughts:. All the puzzles seem to me to be more to do with the native American of the us. The first colony for ex. And Milwaukee's puzzle. Lake Park has one of the oldest Indian mounds untouched. YES I was also the first to say the cicada in the Milwaukee image is an Indian and he is looking down at the jewel. !! To me Preiss is telling the story of the American Indians. These entities and spirits. Are being chased further and further west. At some point they can not go west anymore so they have to go north. My g.g. grand mother was a Cherokee.. The 13th is in the Black Hills... Preiss changed my life so much,. Let me give Yas an idea of that. In 1998 when I first got onto this 13th. I decided to go check those Black Hills out. My dream was to always have a Harley. So after several years of saving it came to me that I could live two dreams simultaneously. Get the Harley and also go to the Black Hill to familiarize myself with Mr Preiss and his final dig site. Twenty years later I still have gone to bike week 18 of the 20. Years. Not just to ride that bike scenically but looking all the while for that Giant SECRET. The 13 th casque. It has become more real to me than the air I breathe. I am close ,. I tried recently. To contact several lots.. what I would like is a book deal... Movie deal... Or at the very least a special airing before I could ever dig one of the ten up. Reasoning is,. Once they are out of the ground their power is lost. Individually digging these up would be a very big mistake. The world needs to see it while it happens. People say prove it. I only wish Exposition would have had me on their program. If so they would have found what they were looking for.

Hi, Chris. Several of us believe there is a 13th and I agree about one thing from each image. I'm not sure I'd jump to movie contracts just yet, but it's there somewhere.

why go for the supposed "13th" casque instead of the other ones as you said you know where they are....?

you dont get a "deal" on conjecture...and you better move quickly cause, not only have i revealed correct locations of several treasures...i know exactly where the sf casque is and if you do...props...but i dont think you do lol. feel free to message me with the answer to the mark twain clue and ill let people know if they should take you seriously so far only two of us get it (ie have any idea how to correctly find the treasure). noone else has proven themselves able to or to have done the same.

On Facebook dale said he got started on the hunt after exp unknown. I had no idea that episode came out 20 years ago. Shit man, time flies. Also I was the first to find the carrot cake in the Houston image. Please send me more movie deals too. K thx.

Unknown: On Facebook dale said he got started on the hunt after exp unknown... Are the trolls now getting trolled? One step closer to the inferno, I guess. "Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate

karleen wrote:: Hi, Chris. Several of us believe there is a 13th and I agree about one thing from each image. I'm not sure I'd jump to movie contracts just yet, but it's there somewhere. Karleen and crew... you mention one thing from each image. Is it also one line from each verse? And or both...?

funsun wrote:: Karleen and crew... you mention one thing from each image. Is it also one line from each verse? And or both...? Hey, Fun. Not sure. It would make sense that it would be or, perhaps, a cipher of some sort. If I figure it out I will share.

Unknown: Several of us believe there is a 13th On my darker days, I'm not even sure there is a third. But then I remember that I am an optimist, and I go back to working the puzzle, and planning yet another road trip. Someday.

Erpobdelliforme wrote:: On my darker days, I'm not even sure there is a third. But then I remember that I am an optimist, and I go back to working the puzzle, and planning yet another road trip. Someday. Karleen, Renovator and crew thank you for the comments. The thought of a thirteenth cask is somehow very believable and potentially rational conclusion to come to.

I’ve been working in the 13th for two years, now. I considered the Black hills at one point, but I now doubt it’s there. I tried taking lines from the verses, too, but coudn’t figure out how. I *do* have parts of several images, though, and also found connections between the solutions. Right now, my solution is focusing on seven blocks in a major US city. I located the area when all the clues I found led me to that small area (free hint: The star in I8 is the object that I first found, and everything else followed), and all the connections and a few things in the images point at a single building. After that, I’ve been stuck.

I was looking at the picture of one of the ceramic pots that was found. It seemed like only a section of it was painted in color. (This could be me seeing the wrong picture.) Perhaps if you put together all of the casks (once found) ceramic images on them may depict something, or the painted parts might? Can we tell if any of the ceramic parts were painted?