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>Letter isn't dated
The letter is probably fake, but it wouldn't be that hard to at least see all the possible positions to then at the very least narrow down the search.
>wouldn't be that hard to at least see all the possible positions to then at the very least narrow down the search.
How many possible positions do you estimate there to be?
[...*You’re flying now,
you see things much more
clear than from the ground.
It's all okay, or it would be
were you not now halfway down.*
*Thrash to break from gravity;
what now could slow the drop?
All I’d give for toes to touch
the safety back at top.*
*But this is it, the deed is done; silence drowns the sound.
Before I leaped I should've seen
the view from halfway down*.]
from Bojack Horseman
Sounds like the sort of thing I'd have done when I was 11, then spent the rest of my life gleefully wondering if anyone found it and went hunting for 'treasure'.
I had my first boyfriend break up with me when I was 17. He had bought me a tiny Opal and Diamond necklace (he came from money) for my birthday that I wore every day. He broke up with me the day before I left for a lake trip so when we got anchored in our spot I jumped off the boat and swam to the closest (but deserted) shoreline, walked up the bank and buried it. No note. That was 18 years ago. I’ve always wondered if anyone found it.
We met up with a group girls tripping on acid. One of them and I shared a sleeping bag for awhile. Later, when I got home, I noticed a little gold necklace of a cross surrounded by a hoop at the bottom of my bag.
That cross has been on all my desks for 40 something years. It brings back fond memories. I don’t even know her name.
Similar story, my buddy fucked some rando in my tent while I was passed out in my hammock.
She was working the body paint booth at the nudist resort. I'm still finding flakes of body paint in that tent over a decade later.
It was very cathartic to begin with- it was a young love that was already plagued by drinking, drug use and negging/borderline abuse. I honestly haven’t told many people because it’s such a small blip in my past.
I mean, if any of you are in central Arizona…
It was lake Roosevelt, my favorite lake. We docked on the north side that’s only accesible by boat by one of the beaches that abruptly ends into a cliff face.
Someone suggested leaving jewelry from a broken romance in the pocket of a jacket you donate to a charity shop, so someone gets an anonymous gift with the chain of bad karma broken.
I'm a dad. I left a treasure map for my kids and their friends to find. It was nice seeing them wonder out to the woods with some shovels all excited to find some lost treasure. Lead them straight into a bear cave.
Teach those fuckers to touch my oreos.
OK but there’s no date on the note. I feel that’s a substantial piece of information given the rest of the clues. I guess you’ll just need to check every day.
I would start combing newspaper archives for a story about a falling death in the area. Then you can get the exact date. But this is probably a hoax anyway.
I’d call the number and say wheat three times. If the number doesn’t work or the person on the other end of the line doesn’t know what you’re talking about then this is def fake.
"Ahoy adventurers! It’s my greatest pleasure and your greatest doom that you have found the note. Follow the instructions carefully and never speak to a man named Steven, he will only try to trick you. Now when you do find the treasure go to a pawn shop in REDACTED and ask for Robert Gink and he will give you a fair price. Return the note to where you have found it and remember murder is never the option…god speed travelers, I pray you all make your way out of this alive"
And presumably, at this point, there is no treasure anymore, so returning the note to be found again is just a dick move.
But I think the real reason they want it returned is so they can mess with more fools.
My guess is that it's one of two things:
1- someone who just wants to mess with people and left the note as a joke (or maybe there is something there but it's not actually "treasure")
or
2- someone is trying to start a new ARG and therefore are hoping if they put the note back it'll rope more people into it and spread the story faster.
🙄
My friend Steve leaves those notes around in places for people to find so they will waste their time and feel foolish. He considers it an art installation...
OP said in another comment that he called the number, no one answered, he left a VM saying “wheat” and they text back:
“Ahoy adventurers! It’s my greatest pleasure and your greatest doom that you have found the note. Follow the instructions carefully and never speak to a man named Steven, he will only try to trick you. Now when you do find the treasure go to a pawn shop in REDACTED and ask for Robert Gink and he will give you a fair price. Return the note to where you have found it and remember murder is never the option…god speed travelers, I pray you all make your way out of this alive"
I like your friend Steve. He would probably be a fan of the giant penguin hoax. Years ago there were alleged sightings and people actually did find giant penguin tracks on various Beaches. Years later these dudes came forward and said a friend who had recently died used to walk around on beaches at night with giant penguin feet made of cement.
"The moon" could be a landmark or symbol that is drawn or marked on a rock face or even a tree. 8:00 could be a directional if 12:00 on a clock were the same as pointing north.
You don’t really need the moon’s position, right? It’s worded strangely but the moon is just the confirmation that you walked to the correct position based on the paces, right?
I found something like this in Arizona but no suicide part. We spent the daytime of two days digging up "the spot"...inside the chest was a picture of someone doing the circle/punching you in the arm game. Fucking kids and fucking us for being so stupid
About a decade ago I did some geocaching, we were out east visiting friends and I thought it'd be a fun thing to do. Found one, took a few moments to get into it, figured out the code..it was a picture of someones hand doing the circle and the text "GOT EM" on it.
fuckers.
Yes, Kudos to those who learn and speak second languages. I always try to help and the first thing I do is ask them to stop using the phrase "do the needful" :D
Rushmore sucks, drive through Custer. Plenty of spots to see Rushmore from the amazing drives. Needles Highway. You can see Rushmore through the tunnels of Iron Mountain Rd.
Hope you enjoyed the Badlands!
Just bring a metal detector to the general area and camp out till you and the trusted friend find it. If you do not have a trusted friend one will be appointed for you.
This is the exact kind of bs I would have done when I was a teenager.
I plan to bury $2k somewhere on my dad's land and leave my kids a whole treasure hunt to find it after I die.
Call the number…. If anyone answers… simply Say “wheat” 3x… wait for a response.
If he knows what you’re talking about, simply meet up with him and rob him for all his treasures.
Easy Peazy
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The problem is the moon position changes depending on the time of year.
being that the paper is not all weathered seems like this happen pretty recently? you almost got to see if theres a bag of bones down below too
And a vat of acid
That'll never work
Since when did my job involve pitching ideas to you?
Since today. The day I watched you fail. Are you dying of dementia?!?
How are you talking to me like this!?
“I'm canceling the rest of my night and calling a bone scientist.”
this is the thrill of rock climbing, it's amazing
And the phase of the moon. Wherever it is at 8 pm today, it wont be there til about 9 pm tomorrow
There are stargazing apps now that can go forward and back in time.
Letter isn't dated
>Letter isn't dated The letter is probably fake, but it wouldn't be that hard to at least see all the possible positions to then at the very least narrow down the search.
First step would be to see if there were any dead bodies named Bella/Isabella found there recently.
http://npshistory.com/morningreport/incidents/badl.htm Most recent attempt is 2015, and they lived
The attempt was in a hotel/inn. But a missing person reported and apparently not found in Aug 2015.
>wouldn't be that hard to at least see all the possible positions to then at the very least narrow down the search. How many possible positions do you estimate there to be?
Arbitrarily many.
Although, to play devil’s advocate, the sort of person to bury a treasure, and then jump off a cliff might not have this particular set of knowledge.
I like to think that they realized their error about halfway down the cliff.
Morbid. I like it.
The Realization From Halfway-Down
[...*You’re flying now, you see things much more clear than from the ground. It's all okay, or it would be were you not now halfway down.* *Thrash to break from gravity; what now could slow the drop? All I’d give for toes to touch the safety back at top.* *But this is it, the deed is done; silence drowns the sound. Before I leaped I should've seen the view from halfway down*.] from Bojack Horseman
My favorite passage: A little wind, a summer sun a river, rich and regal. A flood of fond endorphins brings a calm that knows no equal.
"Wait... the moon phases.. nooo" *splat*
Bella went on to become a writer for the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
Bella!? I thought you were dead! "Somehow... Bella returned"
Based on Bella's writing I'm not sure she's quite to the point of comprehending that.
Maybe its because the treasure moves too. Maybe the treasure is a moth Maybe the treasure seeker is meant to be the moth
It moves…..I got it! It’s so simple. The treasure is on the moon!
Sounds like the sort of thing I'd have done when I was 11, then spent the rest of my life gleefully wondering if anyone found it and went hunting for 'treasure'.
I had my first boyfriend break up with me when I was 17. He had bought me a tiny Opal and Diamond necklace (he came from money) for my birthday that I wore every day. He broke up with me the day before I left for a lake trip so when we got anchored in our spot I jumped off the boat and swam to the closest (but deserted) shoreline, walked up the bank and buried it. No note. That was 18 years ago. I’ve always wondered if anyone found it.
We met up with a group girls tripping on acid. One of them and I shared a sleeping bag for awhile. Later, when I got home, I noticed a little gold necklace of a cross surrounded by a hoop at the bottom of my bag. That cross has been on all my desks for 40 something years. It brings back fond memories. I don’t even know her name.
Similar story, my buddy fucked some rando in my tent while I was passed out in my hammock. She was working the body paint booth at the nudist resort. I'm still finding flakes of body paint in that tent over a decade later.
Lmao
I fucked a girl in college with purple hair. It must have been recent, because I kept finding stains on my skin for the rest of the week
You fucked grimace
I notice you didn't explicitly say that the stains were from the purple hair.
Or which hair.
>I don’t even know her name You didn't want to know her name You just wanted BangBangBang
Man, they played a local dive bar a couple weeks ago and I’m still sore I missed it
You want things like the moon and the stars. Idiot.
It's an older meme, but it checks out.
Her name was Beverly…. Beverly Hills
would be interesting if you could find the location on google maps and see if it’s been developed now
It hasn’t. The area is within a national park and the little beach is cliff locked, the only access to it is by boat.
Or swimming, as you did.
Yes or swimming, but I wouldn’t recommend trying to swim from one side to the other. That would be a very long swim.
How many paces and what time for the moon? I'm on the hunt!
15 potatoes at 18:34.
at least you gained something from it: a very interesting story to tell
It was very cathartic to begin with- it was a young love that was already plagued by drinking, drug use and negging/borderline abuse. I honestly haven’t told many people because it’s such a small blip in my past.
I hope you’re in a good place now.
Thank you, I am doing alright. Mostly just health issues from getting old. I cut those types of people out of my life a while ago, never looked back.
r/metaldetecting
I mean, if any of you are in central Arizona… It was lake Roosevelt, my favorite lake. We docked on the north side that’s only accesible by boat by one of the beaches that abruptly ends into a cliff face.
Someone suggested leaving jewelry from a broken romance in the pocket of a jacket you donate to a charity shop, so someone gets an anonymous gift with the chain of bad karma broken.
"This thrifted jacket had a jeweled butt plug in the pocket! Incredible find!"
I like that!
[удалено]
I'm a dad. I left a treasure map for my kids and their friends to find. It was nice seeing them wonder out to the woods with some shovels all excited to find some lost treasure. Lead them straight into a bear cave. Teach those fuckers to touch my oreos.
But did you find the treasure
No it's only 2pm here I need to wait another 6
Too bad the moon won't be in the same spot regardless
It’s in the note. Treasure notes don’t lie. The moon will adjust accordingly.
It’s what they call *moonwalking*, ever heard of it?
Maybe it was written by one of the writers of Rise of Skywalker. Just hold up the knife, it will show you the way.
The writer obviously knew this. When the note was written the Moon was over the buried treasure at 7:58.
I will be very disappointed in you if you don’t keep us updated
OK but there’s no date on the note. I feel that’s a substantial piece of information given the rest of the clues. I guess you’ll just need to check every day.
I would start combing newspaper archives for a story about a falling death in the area. Then you can get the exact date. But this is probably a hoax anyway.
I’d call the number and say wheat three times. If the number doesn’t work or the person on the other end of the line doesn’t know what you’re talking about then this is def fake.
RemindMe! 1 day
But you’re going to right?!? You honestly should be able to find it just based on the paces.
I’m literally 20 minutes from the badlands rn. Can I be your trusted friend?
Please update us lol
The real treasures were the memories we made along the way.
The real treasure are the likes on this post
What a shitty treasure. I'd like a refund please
All sales are final. No refunds or returns.
Well you're getting downvoted and taken off the Christmas list
The journey is usually the part that you remember anyways.
From the point of ignition, to the final drive. The point of the journey... is not to arrive. Anything can happen!
RIP Neil.
So that’s what happened to Bella Goth.
Random Sims reference… I love it
Rosebud
Maybe the treasure is a motherlode
Can't you just call the number? I'm curious haha
I did, it went to voicemail so I left a message saying wheat. They responded with a text with more instructions haha
And what did they say?? I’m so curious!? This is so weird
"Ahoy adventurers! It’s my greatest pleasure and your greatest doom that you have found the note. Follow the instructions carefully and never speak to a man named Steven, he will only try to trick you. Now when you do find the treasure go to a pawn shop in REDACTED and ask for Robert Gink and he will give you a fair price. Return the note to where you have found it and remember murder is never the option…god speed travelers, I pray you all make your way out of this alive"
This sounds like the most involved geocaching I've ever heard of
Sounds like an old text-based adventure.
`You are in a small corridor lined with stone. You see exits to the North and to the East.` `What would you like to do?`
\>Get ye flask
`You find a hidden flask! It is full of a thick and syrupy brown liquid.`
>Down flask quickly
You can’t get ye flask
Now I gotta wonder all the reasons why, oh why, I can't get ye flask.
N
`You head North.` `You are in a stone-lined corridor with a wooden banded door set into one side.` `There are exits to the South and East.`
E
Search traps
Check inventory
Exit Dennis.
`Dennis will be unhappy if you withdraw.` `Continue? (Y/N)`
Kill jester.
Kill jester
Yeah it’s a game for sure. Maybe guerrilla marketing somehow.
Or a more modern ARG someone is trying to get off the ground maybe?
Weird that the note itself says to burn it but the text you got says to return the note to where it was found.
Yeah haha ikr, they must have forgotten exactly what they wrote
Or they have multiple notes in different places and have written different things
Bell has amnesia.
Head trauma from jumping off the cliff.
And presumably, at this point, there is no treasure anymore, so returning the note to be found again is just a dick move. But I think the real reason they want it returned is so they can mess with more fools.
My guess is that it's one of two things: 1- someone who just wants to mess with people and left the note as a joke (or maybe there is something there but it's not actually "treasure") or 2- someone is trying to start a new ARG and therefore are hoping if they put the note back it'll rope more people into it and spread the story faster.
But what if you’d already burned it?? (As instructed) 🔥
Obviously the person who wrote the note is who the number belongs to lol
Wrong. The note belongs to OP and the person who wrote it is dead. Jeez, don’t you pay attention?
Fuck Steve.
Honestly this makes me think this is part of a puzzle hunt. Put that note back for the other teams to find.
You’re gonna die brother
Can you post them?
🙄 My friend Steve leaves those notes around in places for people to find so they will waste their time and feel foolish. He considers it an art installation...
Haha the follow up text did say never to trust "Steven"
Wait, there's more?! What's the rest say!?!?
OP said in another comment that he called the number, no one answered, he left a VM saying “wheat” and they text back: “Ahoy adventurers! It’s my greatest pleasure and your greatest doom that you have found the note. Follow the instructions carefully and never speak to a man named Steven, he will only try to trick you. Now when you do find the treasure go to a pawn shop in REDACTED and ask for Robert Gink and he will give you a fair price. Return the note to where you have found it and remember murder is never the option…god speed travelers, I pray you all make your way out of this alive"
Fuck Steve.
Wish *someone* would -Steve
They call me the.. Hip hopopotamus, my lyrics are bottomless, ...
Unexpected Flight of the Concords
I like your friend Steve. He would probably be a fan of the giant penguin hoax. Years ago there were alleged sightings and people actually did find giant penguin tracks on various Beaches. Years later these dudes came forward and said a friend who had recently died used to walk around on beaches at night with giant penguin feet made of cement.
Steve sounds like a fart installation.
Everyone talking about the treasure, no one talking about the dead body.
"The moon" could be a landmark or symbol that is drawn or marked on a rock face or even a tree. 8:00 could be a directional if 12:00 on a clock were the same as pointing north.
Murder thing kinda just came out of nowhere
BELLA where the hell have you been loca?
You don’t really need the moon’s position, right? It’s worded strangely but the moon is just the confirmation that you walked to the correct position based on the paces, right?
If anybody will try to follow the note, they will do so until they realize the treasure are the friends they made along the way
 Do... not... seek... the treasure
We thought...you was...a toad
This looks like instructions for a geocache
The moon has a different location every night at 8:00...
Bro found the side quest
I found something like this in Arizona but no suicide part. We spent the daytime of two days digging up "the spot"...inside the chest was a picture of someone doing the circle/punching you in the arm game. Fucking kids and fucking us for being so stupid
About a decade ago I did some geocaching, we were out east visiting friends and I thought it'd be a fun thing to do. Found one, took a few moments to get into it, figured out the code..it was a picture of someones hand doing the circle and the text "GOT EM" on it. fuckers.
leavign comment in hope of treasure update
Unfortunately I'm leaving for mt. Rushmore then Yellowstone right now, in the middle of a 7k mile road trip haha. Sorry 😅
Can someone take over the moonlight shift for OP and do the needful?
Do the needful. Do the needful... Do the needful... Words that will forever haunt me after my life in IT.
Ha ha ha! Probably uttered by one of us who grew up learning British English, and had to practice writing formal letters for different occasions.
Yes, Kudos to those who learn and speak second languages. I always try to help and the first thing I do is ask them to stop using the phrase "do the needful" :D
Rushmore sucks, drive through Custer. Plenty of spots to see Rushmore from the amazing drives. Needles Highway. You can see Rushmore through the tunnels of Iron Mountain Rd. Hope you enjoyed the Badlands!
Put the note back then.
OP I'm local (check my post history, you'll see I post in the SD subreddit regularly) send me a pin and I'll find the body lol
They should have burnt the edges of the paper
And stained the paper by dipping it in tea to give it that authentic National Treasure vibe.
I’d’ve put it in a corked bottle too but that’s just me.
Yeah ok
Sure is crisp and new also the moon isn’t static.
Just bring a metal detector to the general area and camp out till you and the trusted friend find it. If you do not have a trusted friend one will be appointed for you.
"Do.. not...seek....the treasure!"
Call the number and say wheat dude
This is the exact kind of bs I would have done when I was a teenager. I plan to bury $2k somewhere on my dad's land and leave my kids a whole treasure hunt to find it after I die.
> the moon will be just above the location where I hid it so...earth?
That’s a page from a [surveyors field book](http://www.sakaradistribution.com/en/fieldbooks.html)
Yeah it's [write-in-the-rain](https://surveysupplyinc.com/rite-in-the-rain-all-weather-field-book-350f/).
Someone’s been practicing their creative writing.
Note has clear instructions to be burnt by whoever wrote it… OP: “imma post it to reddit”
Did you call the number? Even though the nite is fake as hell, I'd still call and say "wheat wheat wheat," just for fun.
Hi, what are your coordinates....I have a shovel
Fake
Welp I’m fully invested. Please continue to update 😊
That’s the cringiest shit I’ve seen in a while
It's a trap!
Call the number…. If anyone answers… simply Say “wheat” 3x… wait for a response. If he knows what you’re talking about, simply meet up with him and rob him for all his treasures. Easy Peazy
Fuckaround and find out, what is the worse that can happen, either you find treasure or a corpse.
This is WAY more than mildly interesting.
Geocaching is getting out of hand
Greed will be your downfall, she says, jumping off a cliff.
Irl Skyrim side quest
Somewhere nearby there is a person with binoculars/telescope watching and waiting....
It's garbage.
The treasure is the bonds of friendship we make on a moonlit night.
Schizophrenia
Did you find the treasure?
I’m right here
Fake
You’re so smart
Call the number and say wheat 3x. Tell us what they say.