Let the Treasure Hunt Begin

I treasure hunted on occasions with a dear friend of mine, who made a career out of searching for buried treasures. In 1997, he asked me if I would publish a book for him about hunting for a modern day buried treasure. His offer came as a complete surprise to me.

One afternoon in May 1998, as I sat with him in the back yard, he gave me a history lesson on his career in treasure hunting. At the end, he told me he had two places picked out to bury two treasures that might start a gold rush in North America.

In the summer of 1999, he planned to bury a treasure somewhere in the US worth $150 million and a second treasure worth another $150 million in Canada. He had no immediate family to leave his fortune to and came up with the idea of a modern-day treasure hunt.

I could see that he had given this idea a lot of thought, from looking into the legal aspects to working out all the details and finally coming up with a code to hide the real clues. When I first read his manuscript, I was amazed. He not only had coded clues, but he had an alternative method for those who were clueless about codes. That second way meant one could literally sit at their computer and use global maps on the Internet in an attempt to close in on the location.

This book contains two different methods to track down the treasure.

First: Solve the Code, which will let you find the clues, and then you have to figure the
clues out. This method is very precise and requires concentration and thinking. In the end, it will get you to within two miles of the treasure. At that point it becomes a traditional treasure hunt.

Second: Use the global maps. This method requires searching through thousands of pictures. If you can locate all the pictures, it will get you into the ball park, but then it requires a lot more random searching.