 In 1982 a fantasy book was published advertising a treasure hunt readers soon realized the hunt was real Prompting a nationwide search for solutions to the clues presented today. We discussed the mystery known as the secret This is red web So the secret which is the book we're talking about greatly expanded upon the ideas of the masquerade It featured a team of artists 12 paintings, and we have 12 verses It's up for the readers to kind of combine which first goes with which painting and use the visual clues with the written clues to Then find the city and therefore the park or the destination within the city that these are located You then dig you find a key you send that key to him or now his family because you know He is since passed on but you send it to his family a cold family will procure the gem to you So this comes back to the fair people That's what the story is kind of about and the fair people they include fairies goblins leprechauns elves, etc And they were essentially per this story forced out of their homes in the old world by man man Capitalized M humankind And they then these fair people emigrated to North America or aka the new world I should say mm-hmm, and they brought with them the 12 wonderstones the elvish people were the ones who created the casks That contained these stones and then with the arrival of man from the old world to the new world They once again these fair people hid once more and essentially to figure out where these casks are buried You got to combine what you learn from the lore of each nation of these fair people combined with these paintings There are 12 gemstones, and they are all Representative of the birth month stones so in order to decipher which is which you got to look at the paintings there's also birth month flowers and Clock hands and some of these paintings to indicate which month it is and the reason why 12 is important is not only because there are 12 Months, but due to the lore apparently there are 13 nations that the fair people hail from and 12 of them each have a Stone representative of them. Oh, it's one like an evil. You know, I mean like the fire nation Yeah, that'd be funny people needed to pair up the verse one of 12 with the paintings One of 12 and from that you would get visual clues as well as word clues on where this was buried somewhere in North America And once you found the spot there would be a ceramic key in a plexiglass container buried not super deep He mentioned that it was usually about three feet underground that it would be buried So it wasn't super difficult to find anyway you take these keys once you find them and it will open a safety deposit box that belongs to price and That would then contain a gemstone and the book wrote that total these gemstones were worth $10,000 I imagine that they're worth more today. They must be relatively small Right 12 stones to add up, but that's you know, not an insignificant amount of money No, not at all once you think you have found the location instead of just like Willfully digging around to go find this thing what you can do is fill out the form in the back of the book To then message the publisher to say like hey, I think I found it Here's the location. I'm at is this Close that is accurate. That is so smart. Yeah, and then they can be like, okay Yeah, you found it or no You did not find it the first key was found only one year after the books released by a group of students in Chicago, Illinois Eric Gassiaroski Rob Rodel and David James who found it in Grant Park as I mentioned in Chicago, Illinois all 19 years old the fifth painting was the one That they used it was nicknamed castle hat features someone with an emerald earring They are visual clues that led people to the water tower in Chicago, Illinois There is a silhouette of statues from the Bowman statue that is actually located at the entrance of Grant Park on Congress Drive So this really started to hyper focus people in on this location So here's one line from the verse quote where M&B are set in stone and Congress are is known So from this line Eric and his friends found M&B translated to Mozart and Beethoven Whose names were carved in the Symphony Center because this verse refers to M&B being etched in stone There's also a railroad track below this area, and that's probably where are is known Congress being Congress Drive where the entrance to Grant Park is yeah another line says quote L sits and left Beyond his shoulder is the Fair Folk's treasure holder So from this they were able to decipher that the cask was past the statue of Abraham Lincoln aka L Where they could see the next clue the next clue being quote the end of 10 by 13 is your clue and from this They saw that there was a path and down this path. There was trees on either side There actually was 10 trees on one side and 13 And Then the last one so now they've gone down the edge of the path and they said this is where the clue lies So the last line they looked at was seek the sounds of rumble brush and music Hush and from that they said at the end of the path of the trees They could hear the rumble of the train They also figured that brush and music might be because of the Art Institute and the music of the Petrillo Banshell that were nearby and so from all of this combined they got to the end of the verse They said okay, this must be at least very close to where this treasure is buried But even with this specific area figured out the group struggled with many dig holes to figure out where this was They managed to find the cask their shovel hit it and slipped on it and they said oh this is it They pull out the key they sent it to price and they were awarded with an emerald as you can imagine from the Very cool. That is sick. 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