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captain12fingers
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The snake
Please keep in mind

The snake was chopped up to pieces. Please keep that in mind. It took me a while.

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 10:47 pm

FindersKeepers
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Snake

Why does everyone think that the snake is at the final location? The characters got off the subway in episode six. They defeated the snake. They then got back onto the subway.

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 11:35 pm

iwantmygold
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Location: NYC!

Re: Furlongs
If you are in a park?

captain12fingers wrote:

Iwantmygold please keep in mind that 28 furlongs is 3 1/2 miles. There are 3 parks on Staten Island that are 3 1/2 miles and one in Queens which is Flushing that are 3 1/2 miles long.

One of the reasons why I thought McCarren was the park. It is 31/2 miles from the starting point of this whole hunt.

Finalized the length tonight. 3 1/2 definitely meets this location.

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 11:49 pm

iwantmygold
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Re: The snake
Please keep in mind

captain12fingers wrote:

The snake was chopped up to pieces. Please keep that in mind. It took me a while.

The path from the nest to the ship resembles a snake... that's all.

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 11:51 pm

SpiceCowboy
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Re: Furlongs
If you are in a park?

captain12fingers wrote:

Comment From Facebook:

"FAN: I know which park its in so now when I get there i just have to do the furlongs n 250 feet.

- September 22 at 1:12pm"

She might have it. She might not. But if I had a nickel for every time someone KNEW the park between then and now, I wouldn't be searching for the gold. Actually, I'd have about a dollar, but still. Good luck, but anyone giving up the search based on the confidence of others is making a mistake.

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 11:57 pm

Spaniard
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on using the hidden images to set course by Rose Compass
the hidden images

There are hidden images associated with the merging of overlapping images near the X on Captains hat. You'll need to stop the film at the right spot (as indicated below) and then enlarge the image on your computer. Some images, for example, are merely people at the past Halloween parties with the colored balls in the mosh pit used at annual parties sponsored by the puppeteers. Or the rubber ducky. (hidden image in Larry King episode) That was to point you to the gold coins being "buried" under the colored balls rather than buried in the ground.

Does using the Rose Compass/Christmas Tree medallion at Rockefeller Center take you to the British Empire building and then going past that does it take you to the storage building with the moon logo (with its palindromic 'W') at 609 46th St?

http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=7967

The background is explained here starting at the top of the page.
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=740619#740619

Is the key clue on the turtle's "fin"? It was only in the last second of the series that pointed to the all-importance of this number by the use of "FIN." The number "46" appears on the turtle fin in the WPPPT hidden image. Apart from the bigger turtle, check out the several smaller turtles in the WPPPT vault scene.

I have suggested that the treasure chest laden with the coins was taken to the cache location in November by a Budget rental truck. The press indicates it was hidden in November. The suggestion that it was buried in the dirt last November seems implausible to me -- because they would have no reason to expose it to discovery before necessary. Other hidden images likely are very important. Regardless, has a key to the puzzle always been these hidden images and so shouldn't everyone stop digging - per the Captain's emphatic instruction - given the importance of leaving our parks unspoiled? If you spoil the treasure of New York City's parks for the rest of us, you will have spoiled one very real treasure in a fruitless search for an illusory one.

The key word the Captain appears to use in Johnny Longbottom's impressive script appears to be MOON. The word MOON is written out in one of the hidden images.

Dutch Schultz in Fairfield County, Connecticut in 1935 : his horses, his hiding places, and his missing millions (fully viewable)
http://www.blurb.com/books/1475537

rocketdocketSPLATrocketmail.com

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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 6:43 am
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Spaniard
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palindromic numbers
number the captain is looking at

The "unluckiest man" and the "luckiest man" is a dichotomy that has run throughout the webseries. (see, e.g., Lou Gehrig, Sesame St. director Stone who died of Lou Gehrig's disease). "111" which is a "Nelson" in cricket is a palindromic number. Tut is a palindromic name. The moon logo at the storage facility pictured above used for stage props has the palindromic "W".

Did the Captain and his crew use palindromic numbers to represent the dichotomy between good and evil? http://www.marchingdog.com/

A palindromic number or numeral palindrome is a 'symmetrical' number like 16461, that remains the same when its digits are reversed. The term palindromic is derived from palindrome, which refers to a word like rotor that remains unchanged under reversal of its letters.

Are the numbers that the Captain looking at in the Larry King episode meant to be ordered as a palindromic number?

The first palindromic numbers (in decimal) are:

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88, 99, 101, 111, 121, ...

Buckminster Fuller referred to palindromic numbers as Scheherazade numbers in his book Synergetics, because Scheherazade was the name of the story-telling wife in the 1001 Nights. (Here, there may be Ali Baba pictured.)

All numbers in base 10 with one digit -- such as 11th St. -- are palindromic.
(11, 22, 33, 44, 55, ...}.

Anagrams pose related puzzles. An anagram of 'marchingdog' anagrams is charming god.

THERE ARE NO CLUES HERE at marchingdog.com could become "Enclosure Here Three A."

By way of some fun (possibly relevant, possibly not) additional background, Simon Pegg, the only person the Captain follows on Twitter, references Sci-fi and pop culture in his films and shows. He is a big fan of Gillian Anderson and "The X-Files". Simon was the drummer in a band called "God's Third Leg" when he was 16. He is the is godfather of Apple. He once said that "Both me and Edgar are firm believers in never underestimating or talking down to an audience, and giving an audience something to do, to give them something which is entirely up to them to enter into the film and find these hidden things and whatever."

Even the lubbers could find it. (Lubbers is also a type of grasshopper). Is the treasure in storage under a giant grasshopper -- covered by felt? Smile

http://www.eccentric-cinema.com/cult_movies/begin_end.htm

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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:17 am
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Spaniard
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Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
Are we not drawn onwards, we few, drawn on to new era?

Was it a car or a cat I saw?
War! I saw 'Nam � man was I raw.

Toot! Toot!
Too hot to hoot.

If I had a hi-fi!? If I had a hi-fi!?
I, madam, I made radio. So I dared! Am I mad? Am I?

Ah! A mop, a man, a map: Omaha!
Was it felt? I had a hit left, I saw.

Solo gigolos.
So many dynamos.

Oh, no! Don Ho.
Ogre, flog a golfer. Go!

Mad? Am I, madam?
Madam, in Eden, I'm Adam!

Reviled did I live, said I, as evil did I deliver.
Revered now I live on. O did I no evil, I wonder ever?

Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
Are we not drawn onwards, we few, drawn on to new era?

Ma handed Edna ham
Ma is as selfless as I am

http://www.newanthraxandalqaeda.com

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 8:00 am

captain12fingers
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You may have a point Spaniard
Maybe it is

Hey maybe it is under that electrical box?

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 8:10 am

captain12fingers
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250 Ghost Feet
?

Hi SpiceCowboy I believe that Capt. Slim posted the real meaning of 250 ghost feet quite a while ago. After all he is in the business and knows his stuff.

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:03 am

captain12fingers
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Needle as a clue
?

Spaniard If I remember correctly you seem to think that some thing relating to Cleopatra's needle is involved in a clue to the location. I'm pretty sure I saw something that would be quite similar in relating to a needle at the location. I didn't check it out because of my time limit. Had to go. It even had a running clue on it that is in every episode.

What do you think?

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:15 am

SpiceCowboy
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Re: 250 Ghost Feet
?

captain12fingers wrote:

Hi SpiceCowboy I believe that Capt. Slim posted the real meaning of 250 ghost feet quite a while ago. After all he is in the business and knows his stuff.

I liked his explanation -- not sure exactly how best to interpret the meaning, but I'm guessing perhaps 250 feet backwards. Its plausible or perhaps even likely that his explanation has something to do with it, but then what?

I also have an alternate interpretation that has not been mentioned, but I'm unable to share it because the only function this would serve is to get someone from the second to last step to the gold, and I still haven't gotten to the former to test this theory.

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:29 am

tammyrichards43
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Spaniard
the captain's hat

I like your idea about the captain's hat and the X. I would like to suggest that rather than hidden images, the skull above the X on the hat may be an actual marker to look for as we see it everywhere in the episodes and on the website page. Do you think that right above the spot where the treasure is buried there could be a skull or a picture of a skull or something??????? Maybe that is why Crother's was shot in the head too. B-line to the skull? The cemetery in the videos makes sense as skulls are there. A skull headstone, so to speak, for the treasure would make sense and if anyone saw the skull that keeps repeating in the videos, they would know right away that the treasure was there and there would be no doubt. The Crother's bird also removes his hat and places it back on his head in the last video. Mulligan pats the bird's head in one of the videos and Crother's has his hat is in some videos and not in others. What do you guys think? Just to clarify, I do not think anything is in a cemetery, I just mean that the cemetery shot in the video and headstones makes sense as clues of what to look for, as far as the burial site goes.

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:00 am

tammyrichards43
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Something doesn't make sense...

I have been thinking about what each character does and represents in the videos and I think the captain is the one who buried it. He knew but now forgets the spot but wears the X on his hat. Mulligan is the key and leads us there and has the most clues even though he is portrayed as not too bright. Crothers, Bird, and Tutty are like a holy trinity of sorts (3) as Tutty is represented as a treasure in the treasure and when Crother's dies he goes into the bird which when electricuted looks almost exactly like Tutty. It bothers me still about the three T's in TUTTY. I have always thought there was significance in that. Look at the U between the T's. It looks like a hammock between two trees which reminds me of the hammock in the final episode. Maybe it is a clue, I don't know. TTT by the way can mean TO THE TOP. It is also a safety warning in Morse Code.

What I do not really understand is what Tom really represents in all of this. The most I see him do is point his fingers at stuff, throws things, cut things, and disappear. Oh yeah he does give Japanese clues but how does he really fit into the treasure story? Does anyone have any ideas about him? I am just trying to look at the big picture.

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:28 am
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captain12fingers
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Good idea Tammy
Skulls

Tammy I didn't notice any thing in the shape of a skull or skull related at the site, but then again I wasn't looking.

Do you think it could also be related to the word head or hat even? A play on words related to one of these? Crother's head also was set on fire.

************
On an off note: I just read in the paper today about Paul the Octopus. The one who predicts the winner in the World Cup who lives in Germany. I was wondering if he is the octopus that we see on the chest since one of the streets and the colors red & white also are a clue in this puzzle? Just a thought?

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:36 am

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