The Secret (treasure hunt)
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This entry concerns the treasure hunt. For the book itself, please see The Secret (book).
The treasure hunt contained within the book The Secret offers a quest for twelve treasure boxes, or casques, buried at secret locations in cities across the United States and Canada.
The hunt itself consists of six elements:
The Paintings
The Verses
Pairing (of Paintings and Verses)
The Casques
The Keys
The Jewels
BookTreasure boxes
Template:As of, three of the treasure boxes have been recovered.[1][2] The first was found in Chicago, Illinois; the second in Cleveland, Ohio; and the most recent treasure box was found in Boston, Massachusetts.[2] The remaining nine treasure boxes have not yet been recovered.[1] The Boston treasure box's recovery was filmed for Discovery Channel's television show Expedition Unknown and aired on Wednesday, October 30, 2019, a recovery which only occurred due to the puzzle being featured in two previous episodes of the series.[3][4][5]
Over time, some of the cached casques may have been destroyed, or been built over, as was happening with the Boston casque, which was buried in Langone Park, in Boston’s North End which was undergoing renovation, resulting in the casque being dug up by an excavator. Clues would no longer match in cases where the surrounding area has changed since the book was originally published.[5] Similarly, boxes in like New Orleans (which faced mass destruction due to Hurricane Katrina in 2005[6]) and New York City (which has undergone major renovations[7] since the 1980s) have become extremely difficult to track.
Note: This table is the consensus from the majority of searchers.
| Image No. | Verse No. | Verse opening | Status | Location (solved, or likely) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | At stone wall's door | Unsolved | San Francisco, California | [8][9] |
| 2 | 6 | Of all the romance retold | Unsolved | Charleston, South Carolina | [10] |
| 3 | 11 | Pass two friends of octave | Unsolved | Elizabethan Garden, Roanoke Island, North Carolina | [11] |
| 4 | 4 | Beneath two countries | Solved (2004) | Greek Garden, Cleveland, Ohio | [12][13] |
| 5 | 12 | Where M and B are set in stone | Solved (1983) | Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois | [14][15] |
| 6 | 9 | The first chapter | Unsolved | St. Augustine, Florida | |
| 8 | 1 | Fortress north | Unsolved | Hermann Park, Houston, Texas | [16][17] |
| 10 | 8 | View the three stories of Mitchell | Unsolved | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | [18] |
| 9 | 5 | Lane | Unsolved | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |
| 7 | 2 | At the place where jewels abound | Unsolved | French Quarter/Lafayette, New Orleans, Louisiana | |
| 11 | 3 | If Thucydides is North of Xenophon | Solved (2019) | Puopolo Field, Boston, Massachusetts | [2][19] |
| 12 | 10 | In the shadow Of the grey giant | Unsolved | Queens/Coney, New York, New York | [20] |
See also
References
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Further reading
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