Media coverage and other articles

[forest_blight]

Two more articles from yesteryear...

Publisher's Weekly, Oct. 1, 1982:


Publisher's Weekly, Oct. 8, 1982:

[forest_blight]

From The Washington Post, June 13, 1982:
http://kspot.org/trove/wapo.061382.pdf

[Scrappy929]

St Louis Post Dispatch, 25 Oct 1982...

"Off and on for nine months this year, I traveled this country and Canada, hiding the stuff."
"The stones that are worth the most will be the hardest to find."

Casques buried in 1982... check
At least 1 buried in Canada... check
Descriptions of almost getting caught matches with Japanese translation... check

[Spiritr]

so......after reading everything, all you can came up was "check" and not "why"?
with all the materials , after all these years, no questions?

[renovator]

after all these years, no questions

What questions do you have?

[Scrappy929]

so......after reading everything, all you can came up was "check" and not "why"?
with all the materials , after all these years, no questions?

This article has been published on other forums so the vets here have seen it before, not groundbreaking news. Just posted it for some of the newcomers as well as put it in this thread.

I have read posts where people don’t seem to get the right timeframe (1980, 1981, 1982) or how long it took to go around and bury them...

I have read and heard people say that there is not one in Canada...

This article answers all of those questions

Me? Have questions? Please point me to someone in this forum who doesn’t.

[renovator]

I have read posts where people don’t seem to get the right timeframe (1980, 1981, 1982) or how long it took to go around and bury them...

Do you think this article is the definitive word on those issues? Or just another data point on a very flexible narrative?

[jayheedan1]

One of my questions is was a news article/press release done in every casque city when the book came out? On that secret podcast the finders heard about the book in the first place was from a press release, can’t think that a treasure book of this nature would have been hot news back in the day. Probably why it never took off and other casques weren’t found, (low sales / interest?). I can see BP reaching out to these cities in particular, but could as well have sent out a mass letter chain to newspapers/mags to see what stuck.

Anyone in the Montreal area know it anything was released in one of the local papers there?

[Scrappy929]

I have read posts where people don’t seem to get the right timeframe (1980, 1981, 1982) or how long it took to go around and bury them...

Do you think this article is the definitive word on those issues? Or just another data point on a very flexible narrative?

Well, looking at the article printed in Oct 1982 where BP was quoted as saying, "Off and on for nine months this year, I traveled this country and Canada, hiding the stuff.” That would lock down a time frame to maybe late 1981 - early/mid 1982. Nine months this year could have meant Jan-Sep 1982. All depends on time from when interview took place to time article was printed. Definitely not 1980 as I have read. He also mentioned traveling to Canada...

Definitive? Based on the hard fact printed evidence, I would say so. Could he have been misquoted? Absolutely. But from what we know and what has been researched over the years, I would say it lines up pretty well.

[renovator]

Based on the hard fact printed evidence, I would say so.

Depending on which source you use, getting the casques into the ground took a week (what he told Andy and Brian), several months (Chicago Tribune, 11/16/82), or nine months (St. Louis Post Dispatch, 10/25/82). It's just more evidence that when it came to revealing anything about the methodology, Preiss was very careful to not give anything, no matter how minor, away.

[Spiritr]

after all these years, no questions

What questions do you have?

too much image 5, why?
are these clues?
too much coincidence don't you think?

ok, look at the time line, these are all advertisements before the book was published,
- St.Louis Post 10/25/1982 - Verse 2 / Image 5
- Heavy Mag 11/1982 - Image 4/ Image 5
- Radio broadcast, magazine ads and posters showing the book, the cask, and a screaming Mimi, advertisements throughout North America until 1983.
- the book was published 11/1982 Image 11 used as cover
- Chicago Tribune, 11/16/1982 last paragraph , "If I should die - get hit by a truck or something - one person has been instructed to open the directions of the remaining treasures."
- the book was published in Japan 5/1983 Image 11 as cover, renamed "Fairy's Treasure Box" (contains hints on the Verses)
- 8/1983 1st casque found,Image 5, Chicago, paired with Verse 12
- 8/1983 the group of 3 were interviewed on 4:30 ABC7 News
- 12/1983 Japanese 2nd edition published, Image 5 used as cover, renamed "Secret"
- 2004 2nd Casque found in Cleveland, using Image 4/ Verse 4
- 7/9/2005

[forest_blight]

I'm glad those articles sparked discussion. My university just upgraded its library search capabilities, so I took it for a spin.

Here are a few more, and each is related to The Secret in one way or another. The filenames contain the dates of publication. None are contemporary with the book's publication, as you'll see, but they are still fun. Happy reading:

http://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/the.record.bergen.co.071804b.pdf
http://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/the.record.bergen.co.071804.pdf
http://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/the.record.bergen.co.092504.pdf
http://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/book.mag.0303.pdf
http://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/nytimes.111592b.pdf
http://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/nytimes.111404.pdf
http://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/tca.011618.pdf
http://kspot.org/trove/news.clippings/njlj.062804.pdf

[JamesV]

Well, looking at the article printed in Oct 1982 where BP was quoted as saying, "Off and on for nine months this year, I traveled this country and Canada, hiding the stuff.” That would lock down a time frame to maybe late 1981 - early/mid 1982. Nine months this year could have meant Jan-Sep 1982. All depends on time from when interview took place to time article was printed. Definitely not 1980 as I have read. He also mentioned traveling to Canada...

Definitive? Based on the hard fact printed evidence, I would say so. Could he have been misquoted? Absolutely. But from what we know and what has been researched over the years, I would say it lines up pretty well.

I don't know...personally, I'd be hesitant to accept this statement as fact, since it's a marketing interview which was held to promote/sell more copies of The Secret. "I alone traveled the country and Canada, taking a six-foot-shovel through airport security, hiding from police in clever disguises, often under cover of darkness, like an armchair treasure hunting ninja...etc." Sounds pretty exciting, but was that really what happened, or did BP stretch the truth a little to create more buzz? I'm open to a lot of options about what really happened, including the possibility that other people may have buried some of these casques, or that BP *gasp* got permission to hide a casque in some places.

I've got some doubts about the timeline, too, since this sounds like an ambitious travel schedule for only nine months. The podcast interview with sculptor Jo-Ellen Trilling helped to shed a lot of light on the logistics involved in building this hunt, though.

[MERLIN]

This article really hits the nail on the head. https://www.freepresshouston.com/youll- ... mann-park/

[renovator]

This article really hits the nail on the head.

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