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PIX Now greeting variation 5/15/25
A mysterious treasure thorax that was buried successful San Francisco by an anonymous group, containing golden and artifacts, has reportedly been found.
On Tuesday, the radical posted connected the San Francisco subreddit that they buried the thorax determination successful the city.
"You're looking for a 22 lb thorax worthy implicit $10,000. It's brimming with gleaming ingots, currency, and San Francisco artifacts. About fractional the worth is successful gold," the organizers said.
The post, which rapidly became viral, linked to their website featuring a poem containing respective clues:
Poem containing clues that led to a treasure thorax buried successful the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve successful San Francisco.
Buried Treasure SF
"Eighteen Bold letters, Preserved
In a clearing, show a acheronian room's
presumption of brave surfers reeling
From adust ruin's gross to solar's gangly
mast, illustration a historical transverse -
the commencement of one's way
To hint the existent route, task
lone astatine night: to beryllium definite of
bearing, you'll request battalion a airy
In the steadfast basin, wherever feet portion
and agree, excavation a shovel's extent
down-you'll find the treasure you seek"
On Wednesday, NPR's All Things Considered reported that 3 friends, identified arsenic Austin Theriault, TJ Lee and Erik Bahri, recovered the treasure Tuesday evening.
The radical told the nationalist vigor programme that the prize was buried conscionable disconnected a way successful the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve. They besides revealed the contents wrong the chest, which included a golden nugget, metallic and copper coins, shot cards featuring Giants slugger Barry Bonds, and a summons to the Golden Gate International Exposition that took spot successful 1939.
In a travel up Reddit post, the radical that buried the treasure expressed astonishment astatine however accelerated the items were found. "Well, that went A LOT aster than anyone anticipated. Months were hoped, days felt possible, but 11 hours... wow," they said.
The radical said it was unfastened to doing different treasure hunt.
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Tim Fang is simply a integer shaper astatine CBS Bay Area. A Bay Area native, Tim has been a portion of the CBS Bay Area newsroom for much than 2 decades and joined the integer unit successful 2006.
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