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Nov 5, 2014 22:45
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Never Been Banned posted:The very first day i found the site i got so excited that i started digging in broad daylight, in full view of one of those huge asian tour groups you sometimes see around touristy locations. There was seriously a double decker bus worth of Chinese sight seers perusing this tiny place and I was out there trying to chop my way through the sun baked clay. TheY probably didn't mistake me for a gardner or anyone legit, but nobody said anything. I didn't even have the spot correct at that point. What a saga. go out there right now and do it
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Nov 5, 2014 23:13
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Corek posted:Did anyone dig up the one in Cambridge MA, which was probably located behind the gate at Harvard with the last line of the poem written on it? Is there a write up about the spot?
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Nov 5, 2014 23:40
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Demonachizer posted:Is there a write up about the spot? You'll have to ask xie if this is the current working theory, but here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3552196&userid=60034&perpage=40&pagenumber=3#post416956844
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Nov 6, 2014 00:33
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I'm positive you'll find a way... Good luck to you! 
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Nov 6, 2014 01:31
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So are you going to dig it up?
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Nov 6, 2014 01:42
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post the proof you pussy
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Nov 6, 2014 02:06
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Deadite posted:So are you going to dig it up? Very soon.
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Nov 6, 2014 04:08
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If anyone asks questions, you're a college student researching buried treasure and you think you're onto something big. Who's going to question that and a 60 page document? Also, set up a camera and tripod as you dig. I want to see the moment you succeed.
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Nov 6, 2014 05:18
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Never Been Banned posted:Very soon. Wanted a companion to come along? I'm a PNW goon, though I'm in the Seattle area. I didn't think there were any in Seattle (or anywhere in the PNW). A GBS thread had me go out to a graveyard in the middle of the night and find a mysterious box.   I'm down with this kind of thing. (I wish that OTP22 thing was figured out...) Edit: Alternatively I can see what I can do about doing it by myself, give you all the credit for being the mastermind, and let you avoid risking misdemeanor charges or whatever. ExtraNoise fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Nov 6, 2014 |
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Nov 6, 2014 05:26
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Just go to a library and post a craigslist ad saying you are the government and are looking for an independent contractor type to do some digging at the location for whatever reason - then respond back and forth a few times (this will require several trips to the library) and agree to do it on your end. If you get caught at the location, just point back to the craigslist ad and the stupid police will spend their time trying to figure out what the gently caress... I am only kind of joking.
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Nov 6, 2014 05:37
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Hmmm... Pacific northwest... Unbelievably long explanation ... This is a parachute account for Urban Smurf, isn't it?
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Nov 6, 2014 06:16
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Drunk Nerds posted:Hmmm... Pacific northwest... Unbelievably long explanation ... Negative my good man. That's some decent gumshoeing though.
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Nov 6, 2014 07:45
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AARP LARPer fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Jan 23, 2016 |
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Nov 6, 2014 16:09
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drat it, loving dig! Just keep the top layer of sod in good shape and you'll be able to re-fill the hole and replace the sod. The grass will grow back, and no permanent damage will have been done. Nobody's going to throw you in jail for that. And like other people said, get a park ranger interested in it. They dig poo poo up all the time, cut down trees, etc. They aren't going to care if you dig a hole. Just don't go to them with a 60 page document. Show them the book (if you have it) and the picture, and show them why you think that's the spot to dig. People are loving excited about buried treasure! They're not going to say no. Edit: And show them copies of news articles about previous finds. They'll think you're less of a nutjob then, and they might get excited about the publicity. Dr. Bit fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Nov 6, 2014 |
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Nov 6, 2014 16:31
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the treasure was on the plane
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Nov 6, 2014 16:33
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Kinda hoping this guy just digs a hole and jumps in then someone else fills the hole. Or that he posts his manifesto. One or the other.
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Nov 6, 2014 16:36
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Waltzing Along posted:Kinda hoping this guy just digs a hole and jumps in then someone else fills the hole. I want to read the manifesto. And then steal his treasure. Is this the one on that island that urban smurf was going on about?
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Nov 6, 2014 16:38
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godspeed o feckless goons
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Nov 6, 2014 17:51
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Well I posted here so that I'd feel a little pressure, and I'd say it's working so far. I'll dig as soon as I can get to the site again. Also, the "manifesto" is mostly pictures, but I'm sure this thread will be enjoying it in due time.
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Nov 6, 2014 17:56
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ExtraNoise posted:
A lot is still hapening with it, it WAS confirmed as an acyual ARG after some accidental media attention.
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Nov 6, 2014 18:07
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you guys are probably never going to find one of these because they've all been paved over in the last 30 years
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Nov 6, 2014 18:10
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Many of them have. Houston almost definitely. I am (happily) willing to buy a plane ticket to wherever this is, NBB, because I'm a bona fide crazy person about this hunt. We should talk (I'm going to PM you if you have it). There isn't one in Cambridge MA. I think I know where the Boston one was with a decent degree of certainty. One of two locations anyway, one of which is paved over but used to not be. The other would be solution posted on Q4T, but I've soured on it for a number of reasons. But it put me on the right track... I will say that my Boston solution is very similar to NBB's ramblings. The amount of matches that *I* think there are (this is the important thing) is almost unending. I mean to the point of when you look at the aerial map of my site, there is a crack on the wall of Painting 12 that looks exactly like the street layout did in 1980. And the cutouts of the gypsy's hair are a representation of the skyline as visible from the site. And there is a picture of a bench hidden in #12 that is adjacent to the site. What I'm confused about is the fact that the only PNW cask believed out there is SF, which I wouldn't really call PNW... so you're presenting a bit of a paradigm shift in the current thought process. And yes, Q4T is awful. I spend most of my time just trolling and annoying people there, though work picked up and I haven't been on in a bit. edit: To clarify, I'm literally crazy about this hunt (like Jim Carrey in The Number 23) and I'm no longer actively hunting for Boston. I believe I have a solution that starts with an image found in the painting and ends with a place hinted at by the final line in the verse. Because I'm almost sure it was paved over I'll probably write it up and post it at some point. There's a twist to the "solution" I have that makes me almost positive it's correct. A tiny little wink that seems exactly the type of thing that Preiss would appreciate. There are no stretches of "in truth be free," it's what we thought it was: Harvard. It's just not in Harvard Sq
xie fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Nov 6, 2014 |
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Nov 6, 2014 18:45
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Never Been Banned posted:Well I posted here so that I'd feel a little pressure, and I'd say it's working so far. I'll dig as soon as I can get to the site again. Also, the "manifesto" is mostly pictures, but I'm sure this thread will be enjoying it in due time. Hell yeah! Worst that can happen is you'll have a story for your kids that you were arrested while digging up buried treasure. That'll be worth the fine or whatever.
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Nov 6, 2014 18:54
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ThePutty posted:you guys are probably never going to find one of these because they've all been paved over in the last 30 years If not paved over then certainly no longer there. I'm 99% certain the Roanoke Island one has been destroyed through 30+ years of storms, hurricanes, and what not, assuming it was planted nearish to the shore in loose soil/sand like I think.
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Nov 6, 2014 18:55
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AcidRonin posted:A lot is still hapening with it, it WAS confirmed as an acyual ARG after some accidental media attention. Do you have a link? I'd love to see what's going on now. I still have the memory card and dollar bill I got off that metal box hidden under ivy in a dark cemetery in the woods. Also, NBB, I was serious about volunteering to help if it was in the PNW.
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Nov 6, 2014 18:57
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joshtothemaxx posted:If not paved over then certainly no longer there. I'm 99% certain the Roanoke Island one has been destroyed through 30+ years of storms, hurricanes, and what not, assuming it was planted nearish to the shore in loose soil/sand like I think. I believe the most current "feeling" is that it was not by the bench, and likely wasn't buried on Roanoke proper. I've been in touch with someone who has been there and detailed their trip for me at great length. I believe them to be rational and sane, and trust their analysis. This person has traveled to Chicago and Cleveland and re-created both existing solves, so they understand the method, the feelings, and the image matches. It doesn't mean it isn't gone, but I don't think it was where you're referring to.
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Nov 6, 2014 19:06
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Do Not Resuscitate posted:You shouldn't dig. I mean, you've totally been obsessing about this for years, wrote a sixty loving page document about it, been to the site multiple times, started digging at least once already, have cockteased everyone here "I've got the solution, but won't tell you about it nyah nyah," but nah... don't actually go dig again or try accomplishing anything. Why bother? Just walk away from it bro. Great job and high fives all around.
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Nov 6, 2014 19:15
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Xie just post the boston location
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Nov 6, 2014 19:28
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Why don't you just rob the loving bank and take the gems
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Nov 6, 2014 19:29
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ExtraNoise posted:I still have the memory card and dollar bill I got off that metal box hidden under ivy in a dark cemetery in the woods.
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Nov 6, 2014 19:53
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hey i buried a mug under a stick, here's the associated riddle: piece of crap in the ground near a triangle chili's famous for wings 
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Nov 6, 2014 20:02
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I can't wait till Never Been Banned digs, finds nothing, and then posts his manifesto and it's just a bunch of Urban Smurf nonsense.
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Nov 6, 2014 21:06
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Do Not Resuscitate posted:You shouldn't dig. I mean, you've totally been obsessing about this for years, wrote a sixty loving page document about it, been to the site multiple times, started digging at least once already, have cockteased everyone here "I've got the solution, but won't tell you about it nyah nyah," but nah... don't actually go dig again or try accomplishing anything. Why bother? Just walk away from it bro. Great job and high fives all around. This, except ironically
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Nov 6, 2014 21:18
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Deadite posted:Xie just post the boston location Yeah I will, I just don't have the time to take the pics and write it up. I'm not being secretive about it. Even if I'm right the area was paved over a long time ago. Posting the location isn't going to convince anyone of anything, but here you go: I believe it was buried at the Rowland Institute at Harvard, located at 100 Edwin H. Land Blvd. Cambridge, MA 02142 Edwin H. Land, of course, is the inventor of the Polaroid. In 1980, as soon as you crossed the Longfellow Bridge (which of course is obviously in the verse) the street used to look exactly like the crack in the wall on the right side of the painting (next to her hair and the portal). It was two streets that converged into a straight, and then the Rowland Institute used to be much smaller, and the building with its line of trees behind it is shaped like the rest of the crack. It's the only Harvard building for a long ways as well. This is all more convincing when you see the start location (which contains a huge image from the painting and smaller ones) and the route, which matches the verse and contains other smaller images along the way. I was just going to make up a little PDF and hopefully grab some decent pictures on a sunny day, work just hasn't cooperated. xie fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Nov 6, 2014 |
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Nov 6, 2014 22:35
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xie posted:
Replied to your PM. And yes, when you're actually in the right location, with the right poem and painting paired, the number of matches you spot actually ends up being overwhelming and unhelpful. It took me forever to sort through them all and figure out which were the important ones. It sounds insane to say I went for 60 loving pages pointing them out, but I actually did a pretty lazy job of it to be honest, and just omitted everything non essential that was going to be either tricky to describe in writing, or really requires an in-person level of familiarity with the place to believe. The paintings (at least this one) really are loving crazy dense works of composite-perspective-madness. They're well done, managing to somehow be super descriptive of an area while remaining subtle as hell until you get a grip on them. My experience indicates that they've got information in them down to a finer scale than has been appreciated thus far, for the most part. wa27 posted:I can't wait till Never Been Banned digs, finds nothing, and then posts his manifesto and it's just a bunch of Urban Smurf nonsense. also gotta just empty quote this to acknowledge the mad hubris i'm displaying ITT. Never Been Banned fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Nov 6, 2014 |
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Nov 6, 2014 22:51
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I propose a mod challenge for Never Been Banned (who has been banned.) Give him X amount of time to dig and document his findings and post his manifesto or just post the drat thing or face a permaban. X = 1 week seems a fair amount of time.
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Nov 6, 2014 22:57
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Waltzing Along posted:I propose a mod challenge for Never Been Banned (who has been banned.) I'm working with multiple people via PM to share the information and get the thing done. Posting the poo poo outright and turning the process over to whatever dumb pubbie with a shovel gets to the site first would be foolhardy, gently caress up the site for us, and I'm not going to do it until I've hosed this up on my own somehow, and have given up on this thread getting it done tidily. No permaban challenge needed. Mods TIA
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Nov 6, 2014 23:03
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Before I started poking around with tools in Boston I hired a criminal lawyer. You guys may laugh and say "just dig fags!!!!" but my job and my life are worth a lot more to me than these casques, and police are not always rational. Especially in Boston after the bombing. They've been in the ground for 32 years, I think they can wait a bit longer.
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Nov 6, 2014 23:07
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xie posted:Before I started poking around with tools in Boston I hired a criminal lawyer. You guys may laugh and say "just dig fags!!!!" but my job and my life are worth a lot more to me than these casques, and police are not always rational. Especially in Boston after the bombing. Uh wrong. Do it now.
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Nov 6, 2014 23:10
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