Shiver me Silicon Valley timbers!
A San Francisco treasure hunter dug up a hidden chest with $10,000 price of booty after a mysterious group posted a cryptic treasure map on-line.
“Found it,” the fortunate finder posted on X Tuesday together with a photograph of an open steel field containing of money, treasured steel ingots, and uncommon baseball playing cards.
The discover got here lower than 12 hours after an nameless group printed a pirate-style map to a “chest worth over $10,000,” findable by way of cryptic, San Francisco-related clues.
“It’s brimming with gleaming ingots, currency, and San Francisco artifacts. About half the value is in gold,” based on the group’s web site, which was shared by way of Reddit.
“Eighteen Bold letters, preserved in a clearing, sight a dark room’s view of brave surfers reeling,” the primary clue on the map reads. The trendy-day pirates later confirmed their prize had been found in Mount Sutro Open House Protect southwest of downtown San Francisco.
The map’s remaining clue – “steadfast basin, where feet part and agree” – apparently referred to a spot the place a mountaineering path splits in two round some giant boulders, the web site now reads.
The finder, who goes by @wivincent on Twitter, is a “value investor & tech guy from Europe” a spokesperson for the pirates advised KRON 4.
As for why they hid the chest within the first place: “We always figured treasure hunting would feature more heavily in life. Right alongside quicksand and tattered rope bridges,” the group wrote.
Sadly “the science seems to be out on rope bridges” and trendy rope bridges are “stronger than ever,” however they may do one thing in regards to the lack of buried treasure, they added.
