
"Discovery Channel team to dig up Charleston's White Point Garden in search of buried key". A fantasy author’s 37-year-old cache may soon be unearthed in one of the city’s 220 parks. "Treasure Hunters May Be Closing In On Prize In Golden Gate Park".
^ "Expedition Unknown: 'The Secret' Treasure Found in Boston". ^ "EPIC SEASON FINALE OF DISCOVERY CHANNEL'S 'EXPEDITION UNKNOWN' STARRING JOSH GATES UNCOVERS FAMED HIDDEN TREASURE". "Hidden treasure, a family's quest, and 'The Secret '". ^ a b c Baker, Billy (October 25, 2019). Clues would no longer match in cases where the surrounding area has changed since the book was originally published. With the passage of time, some of the cached casques may have been destroyed, or been built over, as was happening with the Boston casque, which was buried in a park that was undergoing renovation, resulting in the casque being dug up in an excavator. The Boston treasure box's recovery was filmed for Discovery Channel's television show Expedition Unknown and aired on Wednesday, October 30, 2019. The remaining nine treasure boxes have not yet been recovered. The first was found in Chicago, Illinois the second in Cleveland, Ohio and the most recent treasure box was found in Boston, Massachusetts. The Secret book variantsĪs of 2019, three of the treasure boxes have been recovered. The book contains 12 images and 12 verses an image must be linked to a verse, with the information they contain used to locate a buried "treasure casque". A Japanese version was published in 1983, and the English version was re-issued in 2014.
The book was authored by Sean Kelly and Ted Mann and illustrated by John Jude Palencar, John Pierard, and Overton Loyd JoEllen Trilling, Ben Asen, and Alex Jay also contributed to the book. Clues for where the treasures were buried are provided in a puzzle book named The Secret produced by Byron Preiss and first published by Bantam in 1982.