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Oooh, this is great. It reminds me of a similar UK based book called 'Conundrum', which was somewhat bizarrely sponsored by Cadbury's Creme Eggs. My nanna had a copy of it and I loved to look at the illustrations, which were as cryptic and odd as these ones. I was only 4 or so when I got obsessed by it so I never got too far in solving it, although I used to spend hours looking at the pictures, and dream of digging up my own golden egg.   On this one, the pillars (?) on the Boston image are bugging me, they look like they should spell something out in a code, I wondered whether it was Maritime Signal flags, there are some letters that kind of match, but there is nothing with triangles involved. There is also that 4 on her cuff.   S...O...W....possibly N? on the left column???  I love this sort of poo poo. The pictures are ace too, although some of them are pretty creepy.
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Ok, I think cask 11 is possibly in COPLEY SQUARE If Thucydides is North of Xenophon Going by that Lemontiger's reasoning RE the names above the library  Thucydides is above Xenophon- posibly meaning North? Take five steps In the area of his direction A green tower of lights In the middle section I don't know Near Those Who pass the coliseum quote:"The Boston Coliseum, or Temple Of Peace, was a temporary building constructed solely for the purpose of hosting the National Peace Jubilee in 1869. This enormous structure stood where Trinity Church and the Copley Plaza Hotel are now located in Copley Square. quote:The John Hancock Tower, officially named Hancock Place and colloquially known as The Hancock, is a 60-story, 790-foot (241 m) skyscraper in Boston. The tower was designed by Henry N. Cobb of the firm I. M. Pei & Partners and was completed in 1976.  Just next to Cobley Square.Face the water  [i]Your back to the stairs Feel at home All the letters Are here to see  Boston Library. And Stairs. Eighteenth day Twelfth hour Lit by lamplight In truth, be free. Reciprocator posted:Eighteenth day, Twelfth hour, lit by lamplight - Paul Revere at midnight before the battle of Lexington and Concord (April 19th 1775)  Possible clues from the painting The building next to the library could pass for a stylised version of what is on that box she's holding..  OOh and look, that cuff is also suspiciously like a bit of the road next to the library  The Falcon could refer to the 'Black Falcon Cruise Terminal' which is nearby. ...there is also a small fountain and grassy area inside the library that might have something to do with it? That square at the top of the arch is bothering me.  Does that top square represent the library court? Anyway I am in the UK and have looked at all this with Google maps and stuff so I don't know....it all seems quite plausible to me. From what I've read Copley Square has had a lot of refurbishing done so the casket (if there at all) may be under concrete by now. Rondette fucked around with this message at 18:20 on May 31, 2013 |
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M42 posted:
This is a really great article about the history of Copley Square which shows it had a refurb in 1984 http://landscapenotes.com/2012/08/23/copley-square/ (book was published 1982)
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I'm just thinking about that verse from the Boston one...quote:If Thucydides is  Let's zoom down and see what we've got OOOOO at first I thought about the traffic lights but then I noticed something.....  Holy poo poo....that looks really out of place. There's not another one on the other side of the road, or in the middle like that one  Let's see what is behind it.  A bit of research tells me the intriguing looking grey thing is a memorial to a fire that was erected in 1998 so isn't a clue...does anyone know what, if anything, was there before? In the other park if we turn around  We see a statue. Of a chap called William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) - a founder of the American Anti-Slavery Association, abolitionist and social reformer who looks very 'at home with all the letters- he's got loads piled under his chair.  HOLY CRAP I just googled 'In truth be free' and it's a lyric from an 1864 ANTI-SLAVERY SONG quote:Burst the fetters of oppression,  Garrison was also big into equal rights for women (actually he sounds like an all-round good egg) and this song appeared to have been written for some women's association. He would have been alive the time the song was written and performed, I wonder if there is some forgotten connection there. I wonder if the chap is guarding a casket. quote:Lit by lamplight The green lamp. ----------- Could it not just be buried around in that general grassy area? Perhaps the image has clues... VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV Rondette fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Jun 1, 2013 |
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May 31, 2013 23:57
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got dat wmd posted:Here's the lamp and Bill Garrison. Nothing really much here. I suppose years and years ago someone coulda stuffed something under the chair. hah that's awesome you got down there. That lamps paint looks pretty old! drat I wish it wasn't 1am over here because I want to play with this some more! Knowing goons it'll be solved by the time I wake up. Are there any buildings in the south side of the park area that have many stairs? I wonder if 'face the water' means face north with some sort of stairs behind you. Are there any north facing benches particularly in front of a building with a stairway? Perhaps it was buried under a bench, hence the 'make yourself at home' line
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got dat wmd posted:There is a pedestrian overpass near here that goes over storrow drive. I suppose I can check that out in a bit just looked at a map of that overpass and it's near some sort of park type land by the water are there any lamps/lights around there I wonder. Don't feel you have to check out myevery hunch though!!!
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xie posted:At the longfellow HOME there is housed the collection of all of his letters as well as many other famous archives, etc. That sounds pretty compelling, good luck dude! edit-Don't get arrested.. Rondette fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Jun 1, 2013 |
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Jun 1, 2013 19:17
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Can you help those of us who can just see a blank white screen? (Well if I lay the screen flat I can see some dark outline/vein looking things but what are you getting at? )
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Jun 1, 2013 20:57
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allta posted:This is the clearest I can get it before the face starts getting distorted. ah yes, that also to my mind shows 2 others. The one circled in white looks upside-down to me. 
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Jun 1, 2013 21:21
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xie posted:So I didn't see anything obvious at Longfellow Park, but man the site is exactly what you'd expect. that's interesting...didntou take any pictures?
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dahkren posted:
^^^ Yeah I was thinking this as well. Just look like you're meant to be there. BOSTON One thing that's really been irking me is the shape of the woman's neck, it's really wide and odd.  The artist is obviously competent at the human figure so it looks unusually bad to my mind. I was also thinking about the front of the woman's dress, there are 3 'blocks'...let's go 3 blocks up....oh look...  that shape looks familiar  in fact now I look at it.....  Without the image you can (if you squint a bit maybe) see a resemblance to the painting, or the woman and stars anyway.   Is it actually a map? The star matches up pretty closely with that bandstand. Seems rather too coincidental, but what is the marker if this is actually a Thing?
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Jun 2, 2013 19:52
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xie posted:I just don't know. Mirroring and overlaying a map was not really possible in the 80s, and this was a book. Blows anything in the other 2 puzzles away. I don't see why not, you could buy city maps and such that you could put tracing paper over? Or it doesn't have to be an EXACT representation....anyway I'm just throwing stuff out there to see if any of it sticks. I do agree that the two solved puzzles had extremely specific images that gave away the location, and perhaps we are WAY overreading it, but isn't that part of the fun?  One thing as well, in that forum we have access to, they're not even sure that Image 11 is even Boston. How has it been deduced that the poem and image match up? I'm intrigued. Rondette fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Jun 2, 2013 |
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Jun 2, 2013 23:10
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DOOP posted:For a guy who graduated from UPenn, you'd think Byron would leave a treasure in the Philly area somewhere. hey neither do I! I'm in the UK and have only ever been to NYC. I'm really enjoying learning random things about cities I know piss-all about. Wanna go to Boston now!
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Jun 3, 2013 00:08
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Hah, add me to the Dream pile too. Except in my version I found 2, one of which was buried in the bottom of a full tub of ice-cream.
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LargeHadron posted:I'm actually very curious about this myself. I've just been taking it for granted that Boston is the correct location. Also, how did we decide the correct pairing of verses with illustrations? I've never seen the book, but my understanding is that they are not explicitly paired. I mentioned that earlier. In that forum we can have access to they don't even think they are connected.
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Jun 3, 2013 17:42
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 I get a real Don Quixote vibe off the figure on the top. Any windmills nearby? 
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CommonShore posted:Care to elaborate on what you mean by that? I'm trying to figure out what it :might: mean, but I can't think of any possibilities (not that I disbelieve you, I'm just new to the thread). Poster Never Been Banned swept in and had totally solved one but couldn't let on which image or verse or anything because someone might go and dig it up first, I guess? Cue lots of pages of furtiveness and 'definitely going to go and dig it up' posts, which pissed everyone off.
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Good luck!! I've been following this thread from the start and weighed in with my own crackpot ideas for the Boston image, so I am super excited to see this potentially getting somewhere...can't wait to see this unfold and Good Luck.......
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xie posted:I just recevied an email from the DCR informing me that someone was caught digging on some sort of treasure hunt this weekend, and they wanted to confirm it was not me. MA state police responded to the call. Holy poo poo!! I wonder which goon that was 
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Quick, somebody dig up a casket or something, this thread is eating itself.
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Jan 9, 2015 11:25
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bonestructure posted:urban smurf never disappoints
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OctoberBlues posted:Surely with the wide variety of people we've got here, someone has the ability to run a criminal background check on a dead man?! I think they mean the Goober who went in an attempted a go on Xie's spot.
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Jan 16, 2015 15:46
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I love you Urban Smurf. Never stop.
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xie posted:I spoke with the DCR today, we're soft-targetting some time in April. They want to be there (understandable) and during the academic calendar my schedule is hell (50+ hr weeks, unscheduled OT) so I'll keep ya'll posted. But this is happening. Toot toot!!
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Mar 19, 2015 23:09
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xie posted:The last time I spoke with the DCR it was them reaching out to me to stay away from mid june through after the 4th, even to take photos, because the area was close to the hatch shell and locked down by DHS. BRING IT ON!
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Waltzing Along posted:Is Xie banned? He should be for whatever it is he did. Lied? Looks like he lied. No actual proof just lots of words and broken promises. No man, I saw him posting in another thread, I told him to get his butt into gear...no reply 
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Crusty Nutsack posted:Saw thread was bumped, got excited
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Nov 18, 2015 11:15
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Never stop never stopping Urban Smurf
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I can't believe it's 9 years since I got obsessed with this mystery for a while and got myself weirdly acquainted with parts of random US cities. Good Times, more innocent times.
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ante posted:Can someone summarize the last decade of thread for me please?! Nothing of value was found.
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