Media coverage and other articles

[MERLIN]

This article really hits the nail on the head.

Money quote: "Believe me, I tried (in a lazy kind of way)." Perfect.

Quite the cherry picker,,,arent ya.

[renovator]

Quite the cherry picker

Not really. "Cherry picking" implies that I selected the best stuff. In this case, I only selected the relevant stuff. The rest (and it's only 1,200 words so everyone, as always, is encouraged to make up their own mind), is a lightly researched, poorly written, mildly funny opinion piece by someone hardly qualified to render any kind of informed opinion on the puzzle.

[Spiritr]

[forest_blight]

Niiiiice!

[Spiritr]

there are radio ads too, but all I have is the scripts, no audio files.

also noticed a "G" inside the "C"? It appears like that in all other posters as well, I have another one just like this in blue, but the resolution is horrible on that one, but you can clearly see a "dot" in the "C"

[forest_blight]

It would be very cool if you could share the scripts. How do you find this stuff?

[Spiritr]

I'm sorry but by law, I can't, without permission from the entities,

[MERLIN]

there are radio ads too, but all I have is the scripts, no audio files.

also noticed a "G" inside the "C"? It appears like that in all other posters as well, I have another one just like this in blue, but the resolution is horrible on that one, but you can clearly see a "dot" in the "C"

Obviously the Masons were involved!

[forest_blight]

[forest_blight]

[catherwood]

Cross-posting to announce a reair of "that" episode of "Expedition Unknown" tonight (Sept.11) on the Travel Channel. It is one of their "enhanced" episodes, so the title is now "Extra Finds: The Secret" airing at 9pm Eastern.

[Scrappy929]

Any possibility the station would keep recordings from back then? It also ran again on 01 Nov 1982, same time & channel. Probably not an actual clue reveal, more likely was a generic talk about the puzzles. When was the actual release date of The Secret? Was it Nov 1982?

[Scrappy929]

[Scrappy929]

Sean Kelly, native of Montreal...

"The story now is that 300 years ago the Fair People - fairies, goblins and other fantastic creatures - fled the Old World for the New. Then, as North America became populated, they disappeared, but not before burying 12 treasures around the continent, especially in major book buying markets."

"Bantam officials wanted to remove the Canadian fairies but he was adamant and the sales people relented when they recalled the size of the Canadian market."

Interesting...

[funsun]

I thought it was a marketing mistake to make the quest so dark and ominous with fairies and dungeons and dragons and occult laden type of imagery. The whole dungeons/ fairy market in the 80's was in style and underground for a flash. But the pictures and book itself being mildly occult, not what some people want in their houses. He should have just lightened it up for the masses and made the casks easier to find. Every time the casks were found, they got lots of free publicity, some national. As a result new people were interested. Otherwise the book had no on-going major market publicity. He should have let them be found and then done a series of "The Secret" treasure hunts. The first series (this one) could have been a bit easier, to gain public interest. The harry potter market was more kid friendly. Thus it was only slightly dark, but took off to a wider audience.