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?

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?

@fett713akamandodragon5

21 күн бұрын

Yeah, I caught that too!!

@GreatSageSunWukong

20 күн бұрын

Exactly it was clearly a bronze coloured owl and wasn't actually made of bronze so after 30 odd years is just a rusty bird

@fett713akamandodragon5

20 күн бұрын

@@GreatSageSunWukong Bronze doesn't rust the way iron does, which is what he said the bird they found was, rusty iron.

@Kitsudote

19 күн бұрын

My thoughts exactly! Maybe they stumbled upon it accidently first, but then got aware of the hunt. Or just found it because of the hunt.

@ReklessDegen

17 күн бұрын

If you watch Season 6 episode 8 of expedition unknown, they explain that a fake owl was buried, once found you can then exchange it for the real one.

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.

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.

@iowafarmboy

21 күн бұрын

Well, sounds like you have a summer project 😉

@danielekkel2629

14 күн бұрын

Dude wanna make a team?

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!

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”

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

@StephenMcGregor1986

19 күн бұрын

gay

@DaleDix

18 күн бұрын

He was famous for making things up. That was his job and he was good at it.

KZread 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."

@aceundead4750

21 күн бұрын

Im gonna be king of the youtubers!

@Hillbilly001

21 күн бұрын

Tribumal? What is that?

@slayingroosters4355

20 күн бұрын

One piece of what?

@TitularHeroine

20 күн бұрын

​@@slayingroosters4355 tube

@ShockNAwww

20 күн бұрын

@@slayingroosters4355bruh..

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

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

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

@Merriwen

20 күн бұрын

Me too!

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

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

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

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

Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

This is a job for Ron Swanson

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?

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.

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

@apmarcus

21 күн бұрын

@SimonsBeard a channel all about interesting historical beard facts. Make it happen!

@justincapone

21 күн бұрын

I am Alpharius and do NOT approve this message.

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

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

@gintonic5489

21 күн бұрын

Russia laughs at them both for being so small…

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

I love these videos!

That pirate accent at the start was funny af😅

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

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

Awesome

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

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

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

I LIVE NEAR GRAND RAPIDS MICHIGAN!

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.

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

@cophezzeslangin2794

21 күн бұрын

Really is the worst.

Can you cover the yamashita treasure?

oh no, i threw that owl away!

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

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

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?

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

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?

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

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

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

@brucemitchell5637

21 күн бұрын

Nope, I'm first!

@mbathroom1

21 күн бұрын

@@brucemitchell5637 wrong

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

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

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.

Brilliant Irish accent at the start

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

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

@Lil_Puppy

19 күн бұрын

You can only get in trouble for it once, it's also common to pay someone else to take the fall for things like this.

@debbiemoore2747

14 күн бұрын

​@Lil_Puppy reminds me of a movie Disney created 😅

No mention of the Michael Jordan rookie card?

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

@rocketrockstar8171

20 күн бұрын

Same

😮

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

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

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😂.😢😢

@StoffelDilligas

20 күн бұрын

I don't have that problem, it's a double problem for me. It's dropping a malteaser down between the cushions. One the chocolate melts on to the material, and two, I've wasted a munchie...

1/137

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

I want that owl 🦉 😔

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

@mebreevee1997

20 күн бұрын

Pretty sure that died awhile ago.

@banedonrunestar5618

20 күн бұрын

Hence why it’s the “American Spirit”, it died.

AI would be able to solve these?

watching this video i lost the game...

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

"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.

@joeyr7294

20 күн бұрын

Did you watch the first two minutes?

@sammskiles2890

20 күн бұрын

It’s just the genre of book. You’re not gonna find any treasure in your fucking lazyboy.

@joeyr7294

20 күн бұрын

@@sammskiles2890 touche lol

@DaleDix

18 күн бұрын

​@@sammskiles2890I just have lazyboys for watching TV.

Technically bitcoin mining is still a thing

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

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

@captainspaulding5963

21 күн бұрын

Failing to "EXPOSE", not find.

@HeWhoShams

21 күн бұрын

@@captainspaulding5963 Are you high? The point still stands, there are MANY ways to expose secrets anonymously so the fact "Nyx" did not expose means he did not find. Someone that fanatic in their pursuit would expose if they found anything. Even going so far as to goto Cicada as a expert hacker and you really gonna tell me it doesn't apply? Thank you for being a grammar..... and letting me school you on basic comprehension through context

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

2nd!!! 😂

@pablosanchezbellouccinni

21 күн бұрын

More like 4th

The golden owl has already been found

1 is the loneliest number you could ever do

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