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-title: August Puzzle - Boston, MA. The Secret a Treasure Hunt
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-# Summary
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-The Boston Casque was found by Jason Krupat in 2018 near home plate, at the middle baseball field in Langone Park, Boston. This disovery was documented in an episode of [Expedition Unkown](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11203764/). The Casque was dug up by an excavator during construction.
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-# Map
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-[![A mushroom-head robot](/uploads/august/map-of-boston.jpg 'Google Maps')](https://maps.app.goo.gl/sR9YvUyGkZFBAAAf9)
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-# Painting
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-<img src="/uploads/august/Image11.jpg" title="Salem Witch" />
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-| <img src="/uploads/august/paintingflower.png" width=300 /> | Gadiolus <br /> <img src="/uploads/august/flower.png" width=300 />
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-| <img src="/uploads/august/zipcode.jpg" /> | 02213 is the zip code of the North End of boston <br/><img src="/uploads/august/zipcode-annotated.jpg" /> |[Mysterious Writings](https://mysteriouswritings.com/found-treasure-the-boston-casque-of-the-secret-armchair-treasure-hunt/)
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-| <img src="/uploads/august/latitude.png" /><img src="/uploads/august/latitude-41.jpg" width=150/> | The latitude of Boston is 42
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-| <img src="/uploads/august/longitude-70.jpg" width="150" /> | The longitude of Boston is -71. A 70 with a backwards 7 can be seen near her right elbow
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-| <img src="/uploads/august/witch.png" width=300 /> | The figure depicted is a witch (a nod to to the Salem Witch Trials) <br> Her hair is shaped like a baseball diamond <br> She seems to be opening Pandora's box | JJP on EU
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-| <img src="/uploads/august/bostonglobe.png" width=180 /> | Boston globe | John Judge Palencar on Expedition Unknown
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-| <img src="/uploads/august/pops.png" width=200 > | Boston Pops | JJP On EU
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-| <img src="/uploads/august/bostonupdated.jpg" width=700 /> | BOSTON<br> S also stood for Salem Witch | JJP [ 12Treasures interview](https://youtu.be/taEKPdeFvzU?si=PWQNUGOuHyrvk941&t=534) and EU|
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-| <img src="/uploads/august/columbus.jpg" /> | Columbus looks like a match to some but JJP commented saying he used a model on The Secret Podcast | [youtube The Secret](https://youtu.be/taEKPdeFvzU?si=mIAONLrazZLXpFbd&t=1304)
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-| <img src="/uploads/august/porthole.jpg" /> | The large circular window in the image is mean to represent a porthole on a ship like the USS constition, though the actual constitution doesn't really have portholes, though it does have [hawse holes](https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/2017/06/12/hawse-pipes/)| [youtube The Secret](https://youtu.be/taEKPdeFvzU?si=mIAONLrazZLXpFbd&t=1304)
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-| <img src="/uploads/august/flags.jpg" /> | <img src="/uploads/august/ironsides.jpg" /> | Confirmed by JJP on EU. <br /> [USS Consitition Museum Signal Flag Chart](https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/signal-flag-chart.pdf)
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-| <img src="/uploads/august/warfs.png" /> | North end warfs | JJP
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-| <img src="/uploads/august/homeplate.jpg" /> | Home plate "feel at home"<br /> The casque was buried under or near home plate | JJP
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-| [[/uploads/Boston Clover.jpeg]] | 4 leaf clover - Boston Celtics? | Speculation
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-| If Thucydides is <br> North of Xenophon | Written on the outside of the [Boston Public Library](/uploads/BPL.jpeg) |Jason Krupat on [Expedition Unknown](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11203764/), common searcher theory<br /> There is also a [quote by Horacle Whalpole](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace_Walpole#:~:text=The%20next%20Augustan%20age%20will,and%20a%20Newton%20at%20Peru)
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-| Take five steps <br> | Pass five warfs | Jason Krupat on on EU |
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-| In the area of his direction | To the North End | JK on EU
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-| A green tower of lights | Tobin Bridge | Krupat on EU |
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-| <br> In the middle section | In the middle of 3 ballfields | Krupat on EU
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-| Near those<br>Who pass the coliseum<br> With with walls| Near [Copps Hill Burying Ground](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copp%27s_Hill_Burying_Ground) and the [ice rink](https://www.mass.gov/locations/dcr-steriti-memorial-rink) (coliseum) <br>Metal walls could be a reference the nickname of the USS consitution across the harbor's "Iron Sides" nickname.
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-| Face the water | Face the Boston Harbor
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-| Your back to the stairs | Your back to [Copps Hill Terrace ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copp%27s_Hill_Terrace#cite_note-MACRIS-2) stairs | Unconfirmed
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-| Feel at home | Feel for the treasure under home plate | Confirmed by find
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-| All the letters<br> Are here to see | This line is a mystery <br> It may refer signal flags on USS constitution | Speculation
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-| Eighteenth day <br>Twelfth hour<br> Lit by lamplight | These lines mostly likely reference [Paul Revere's Ride](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere%27s_Ride) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Very likely
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-| In truth, be free. | This line is a mystery. Theories include <br> - It could be a reference to the image, which depicts Pandora freeing a fairy from Pandoras box <br> - [famous Saco & Vanzetti trial](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco_and_Vanzetti)<br> - [John 8:32 "The truth will set you free"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_truth_will_set_you_free).<br> | Speculation
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+# Summary
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+The Boston Casque was found by Jason Krupat in 2018 near home plate, at the middle baseball field in Langone Park, Boston. This disovery was documented in an episode of [Expedition Unkown](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11203764/). The Casque was dug up by an excavator during construction.
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+# Map
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+[![A mushroom-head robot](/uploads/august/map-of-boston.jpg 'Google Maps')](https://maps.app.goo.gl/sR9YvUyGkZFBAAAf9)
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+# Painting
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+<img src="/uploads/august/Image11.jpg" title="Salem Witch" />
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+| <img src="/uploads/august/paintingflower.png" width=300 /> | Gadiolus <br /> <img src="/uploads/august/flower.png" width=300 />
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+| <img src="/uploads/august/zipcode.jpg" /> | 02213 is the zip code of the North End of boston <br/><img src="/uploads/august/zipcode-annotated.jpg" /> |[Mysterious Writings](https://mysteriouswritings.com/found-treasure-the-boston-casque-of-the-secret-armchair-treasure-hunt/)
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+| <img src="/uploads/august/latitude.png" /><img src="/uploads/august/latitude-41.jpg" width=150/> | The latitude of Boston is 42
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+| <img src="/uploads/august/longitude-70.jpg" width="150" /> | The longitude of Boston is -71. A 70 with a backwards 7 can be seen near her right elbow
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+| <img src="/uploads/august/witch.png" width=300 /> | The figure depicted is a witch (a nod to to the Salem Witch Trials) <br> Her hair is shaped like a baseball diamond <br> She seems to be opening Pandora's box | JJP on EU
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+| <img src="/uploads/august/bostonglobe.png" width=180 /> | Boston globe | John Judge Palencar on Expedition Unknown
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+| <img src="/uploads/august/pops.png" width=200 > | Boston Pops | JJP On EU
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+| <img src="/uploads/august/bostonupdated.jpg" width=700 /> | BOSTON<br> S also stood for Salem Witch | JJP [ 12Treasures interview](https://youtu.be/taEKPdeFvzU?si=PWQNUGOuHyrvk941&t=534) and EU|
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+| <img src="/uploads/august/columbus.jpg" /> | Columbus looks like a match to some but JJP commented saying he used a model on The Secret Podcast | [youtube The Secret](https://youtu.be/taEKPdeFvzU?si=mIAONLrazZLXpFbd&t=1304)
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+| <img src="/uploads/august/porthole.jpg" /> | The large circular window in the image is mean to represent a porthole on a ship like the USS constition, though the actual constitution doesn't really have portholes, though it does have [hawse holes](https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/2017/06/12/hawse-pipes/)| [youtube The Secret](https://youtu.be/taEKPdeFvzU?si=mIAONLrazZLXpFbd&t=1304)
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+| <img src="/uploads/august/flags.jpg" /> | <img src="/uploads/august/ironsides.jpg" /> | Confirmed by JJP on EU. <br /> [USS Consitition Museum Signal Flag Chart](https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/signal-flag-chart.pdf)
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+| <img src="/uploads/august/warfs.png" /> | North end warfs | JJP
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+| <img src="/uploads/august/homeplate.jpg" /> | Home plate "feel at home"<br /> The casque was buried under or near home plate | JJP
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+| [[/uploads/Boston Clover.jpeg]] | 4 leaf clover - Boston Celtics? | Speculation
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+| If Thucydides is <br> North of Xenophon | Written on the outside of the [Boston Public Library](/uploads/BPL.jpeg) |Jason Krupat on [Expedition Unknown](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11203764/), common searcher theory<br /> There is also a [quote by Horacle Whalpole](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace_Walpole#:~:text=The%20next%20Augustan%20age%20will,and%20a%20Newton%20at%20Peru)
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+| Take five steps <br> | Pass five warfs | Jason Krupat on on EU |
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+| In the area of his direction | To the North End | JK on EU
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+| A green tower of lights | Tobin Bridge | Krupat on EU |
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+| <br> In the middle section | In the middle of 3 ballfields | Krupat on EU
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+| Near those<br>Who pass the coliseum<br> With with walls| Near [Copps Hill Burying Ground](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copp%27s_Hill_Burying_Ground) and the [ice rink](https://www.mass.gov/locations/dcr-steriti-memorial-rink) (coliseum) <br>Metal walls could be a reference the nickname of the USS consitution across the harbor's "Iron Sides" nickname.
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+| Face the water | Face the Boston Harbor
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+| Your back to the stairs | Your back to [Copps Hill Terrace ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copp%27s_Hill_Terrace#cite_note-MACRIS-2) stairs | Unconfirmed
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+| Feel at home | Feel for the treasure under home plate | Confirmed by find
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+| All the letters<br> Are here to see | This line is a mystery <br> It may refer signal flags on USS constitution | Speculation
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+| Eighteenth day <br>Twelfth hour<br> Lit by lamplight | These lines mostly likely reference [Paul Revere's Ride](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere%27s_Ride) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Very likely
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+| In truth, be free. | This line is a mystery. Theories include <br> - It could be a reference to the image, which depicts Pandora freeing a fairy from Pandoras box <br> - [famous Saco & Vanzetti trial](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco_and_Vanzetti)<br> - [John 8:32 "The truth will set you free"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_truth_will_set_you_free).<br> | Speculation
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