ARMCHAIR EXPLORERS STILL SEEKING $100,000 IN GEMS

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ARMCHAIR EXPLORERS STILL SEEKING $100,000 IN GEMS

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By Durk DuganTreasure chest

In 1983, long before the internet made the term “virtual” part of our vocabulary, a young entrepreneur created a “virtual” buried treasure by burying $ 100,000 of gemstones in a specified location in the United States.

It was a “virtual” buried treasure because the treasure was not really buried at a location, but instead resided safely in the young entrepreneur’s safety deposit box.

And though the clues were prominently displayed on the pages of the Chicago Tribune and other national newspapers, and though hundreds of radio stations interviewed the young entrepreneur, and though thousands of people have made guesses, the “armchair treasure” has still not been found.

It still resides in a safety deposit box waiting for discovery.

In 1983 the “armchair” buried treasure was offered to anyone who could guess its location. A total of 10 clues were given for its location.

Here are six of those original 10 clues as published in the Chicago Tribune on May 26,1983. The others four clues like the treasure itself have been long forgotten.

  1. Great Chiefs of the Old West
  2. 100, 45
  3. Note the distance of the cipher stone, when on Oak Island found, For help it may to learn the spot of my treasure blue and round. Before you take a number, tho, for a value that it’s not, Consider this my cipher clue: “fthfdeg” to find the hidden spot.
  4. One if by land. Two if by sea.
  5. Grover Cleveland, Ulysses S. Grant, Herbert Hoover.
  6. A type of tree, a type of stream; and lo the twain do meet.

But for the curious, this virtual buried treasure now has a home for virtual treasure hunters.  Go to www.Buried-Treasure.info . for more information on the treasure and to make a guess.