5 Armchair Treasure Hunts That Are Still Going On 

There is one MAJOR PROBLEM with the "rusty" owl... Who would accidentally dig up a bronze owl and then consider burying a FAKE rusty owl in its place?

It seems unlikely that somebody would replace a bronze owl with a rusty iron one. It seems more likely that the original owl wasn't really bronze in the first place.

A friend of mine set up a whole dragon ball z geocache scenario that he and his girlfriend sought out over several months. When they uncovered the last one he proposed to her. Very sweet!

im from GR Michigan. Born and raised, and ive never heard of this treasure. now my mind is racing though all the spots in town that are undeveloped.

I think the trouble with some of these is similar to the problem D&D dungeon masters can face. You dont want the puzzle to be so easy that they know the answer before you finish the riddle because then you think it wont be satisfying for anyone. But then your group spends an hour trying to figure it out because youve made it to clever or based on information that only you have. So you try and make something easier like giving the classic riddle of the Sphinx, but because you also mentioned the entrance had 10 pillars, one of which has crumbled, they get distracted by unimportant information and chase what amounts to a red herring all night. How do you make the puzzles actually easy enough to be solved by the common man without also just publishing a map with latitude and longitude and a sign posted over the treasure in blinking neon red x's?

"Life is the greatest treasure hunt". - Mark Twain

That was your best intro EVER.. Literally spat out my afternoon whisky and nearly crashed my boat..

Man, that last box looks like the one that crazy dude buried in the flower bed of a local Hooters a few weeks back.

I don’t know if this is a true saying or where it came from but I’ve always said “if your puzzle is so convoluted and so random that only insider information could ever solve it, then you didn’t make a puzzle, you made a stupid lock”

I bought _Masquerade_ when it was first issued. I couldn't solve all the puzzles but I continue to be enchanted by it.

This was a really good episode. I've never heard any of these stories before. Kudos to the writer.

The Secret! I love this entire story. I've been searching in Charleston, SC for a few years now.

I might have to find that last treasure. CHARIZARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

Wow Grand rapids that's one city away from me it's always weird to hear about places near you when watching a video

I love The Secret. Got really into the key that people think is in Houston(where I live). I still regularly visit the few suspected locations in the city. Hope it’s not underneath the zoo, because I don’t think they’d ok digging.

1:05 - Chapter 1 - Cracked 3:05 - Chapter 2 - On the trail of the golden owl 5:20 - Chapter 3 - The golden apple tale 8:05 - Chapter 4 - The secret 10:10 - Chapter 5 - There's treasure inside

RU-vid Channels. Podcasts. tangents. The man who had everything in this world... The Fact King, Simon Whistler. His last words at the Algorithm Tribumal sent people from all over the world out to the web: "My Channels are yours for the taking. But you'll have to find them first. I left them all in One Piece."

This is a job for Ron Swanson

That would be hilarious if the treasure was just a note saying “the treasure was inside you the whole time” lol

Cadbury's did a book in the 1980's similar to the Kit Williams one that had 12 poems & illustrations that led to 12 gold "creme eggs". I got the book, but didn't manage to solve any!

I love these videos!

The Secret. The picture with the mask and the clock. Represents New Orleans. My guess is the key is either somewhere in or around Preservation Hall -or- at Storyland somewhere around Captain Hook’s pirate ship.

'The real treasure was the online friends we made along the way' or something like that.

That pirate accent at the start was funny af😅

I had a copy of Masqurade and the illustrations were incredible!

My suggestion made it into a video! Yay! Go the 🦉!!

Great vid. Are there any treasure hunts based here in Australia? There seems to be many mysteries, codes and treasures found and unfound in the USA?

“Seaward, ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.”

Wow. One of those books is a real Stand Alone Complex.

Ahhhhhh now i understand where Disney got the idea for National Treasure, from The Secret 😁😉

Awesome

Aww, I was hoping Simon was going after Kolchak's gold

I saw the video title and instantly thought "Brinks Mat, Kenneth Noye". I'm probably not the only one...

The earliest I've ever been, I'll take it.

His beard is getting out of control. It should set up it's own RU-vid channel

I found that Golden Apple book, did some AI analysis, and I think the Golden Apple is on a tree in the middle of an orchard in the US called Overhiser Orchards. I need someone to drive around the property for me.

oh no, i threw that owl away!

I LIVE NEAR GRAND RAPIDS MICHIGAN!

Bah, thought i got here 1st. No treasure for me😢

I sincerely hope that the second owl was not hidden in the same place as the first. If it was, how do we know for sure that whoever found the first one isn't already in possession of its replacement?

I come back for the lesson delivered with an English accent time and time again

Has anyone heard if QI the quiz from the UK in the 80-90s? (not related to bbc qi series) , a trial video competition sorting vid clips into information to answers etc. In the late 80s i think it was, me and the mrs (she was a PA to a famous journalist) got invited to its launch in a fancy London night spot Met Tony Robinson (Baldrick) who was hosting it. Very difficult to suss out the video answers but we got passed a few levels, got a few t shirts as prizes. I wonder what happened to it?

Where do these authors come up with these gigantic treasures that they don't want to keep for themselves?

The Secret has one in SF unable to be obtained due to Golden Gate Park being built there now and the city refusing to allow any digging there

Can you cover the yamashita treasure?

Brilliant Irish accent at the start

Hey Simon 😇 Philadelphia USA 🇺🇸 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

"Finding a person to love is the ultimate treasure hunt." -- Lynn G. Robbins

1st! Last time I was this early, we still did treasure hunts

This video made my brain hurt. And I think I may have lost a few IQ points in the process.

I watched 1 episode of oak Island and never again. I knew it was just another Ghost Hunters.

Europeans: "Hah. I'll just go to the United States and dig everywhere. How big could it possibly be?"

I like armchair treasure hunts. It would be cool to become the guy to leave it behind.

No mention of the Michael Jordan rookie card?

Couldn't you just plug cracked onto a computer and ask for all possible permutations of a group of 12? Of course I don't know how long that would take A PC but it's a start.

I want that owl 🦉 😔

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Remember folks, Uncle Sam gets %25 of that treasure.

I already found The Treasure. It is the American Spirit!

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I'm on an Arm chair treasure hunt with death involved..Coz i've dropped me joint and me missus will kill me if she sees it burning her chair😂.😢😢

The ultimate impossible search for americans looking for hidden treasure: The Kinder surprise...

But does the golden apple have the word kallisti on it? Otherwise I'm not interested.

6:48 the PO box is in bold. Its probably in that box.

AI would be able to solve these?

watching this video i lost the game...

"armchair" treasure hunt seems to be a bit wrong here... you cant find these from your armchair, you have to go out and dig somewhere.

Technically bitcoin mining is still a thing

Treasure hunting: the only reason I’d visit the States.

The golden owl has already been found

Failing to find any CIA corruption has to be the most fictional thing I have ever heard.

1 is the loneliest number you could ever do

The Vietnamese are talking about a treasure worth billions in the ocean

2nd!!! 😂

Everything is in the usa - nothing of worth in the rest of the world.lololoololollollol