If you just started hunting or if you have been searching since 1982 I’m glad you are here. I learned about “The Secret” a few years ago while researching ideas for making some of my own treasure hunts. Like may others I got sucked into the story of the fair people and the treasures that were hidden. Now that I’ve been studying this for a little while, I’m into it on a whole different level. Let me quickly try to explain. After hours and hours of podcasts, YouTube videos, TV shows, Facebook groups and of coarse google maps. I now find myself feeling like part of the “Secret” community. I also feel like I’ve been getting to know Byron the author and the creative team that assembled this great adventure. Some of you understand what I mean and some of you will find out as long as you just keep on searching.

Speaking of searching there is a ton of information out there about The Secret for you to start looking through. Everyday there are more people sharing ideas and joining the hunt. I think we can all acknowledge that the Discovery Channel and Josh Gates might have had a little something to do with that. What some of you don’t know tho is that there are several less famous sources out there, that are putting out some very high quality information. For example the guys running the Secret Podcast do a fantastic job explaining facts and theories that they have come across. With that being said I hope that the information here makes you aware of all the other great content that is out there. I’m just here sharing the stuff that I’ve come across during my searches that I’ve found helpful or interesting. I will be sharing some of my own ideas as will as elaborating on and revisiting some of the most common main stream theories out there. After awhile every thing kinda blends together, I will do my best to link and list the sources and give credit to any past hunters. I am also by no means a professional at any of this and I am not pretending to be. As you will see I have a simple approach to the hunt. I think it is more important to help get you started on your own path than to convince you to come down mine with me. Having many different perspectives on the team is what could help out the most. From every thing I have been seeing, open minds are what finds treasure. If all the information that is out there or my way is so right then all the caques would have be found by now. Even the best explanations are only theories until they produce a casque and a key.

I am how ever super excited about this hunt and look forward to chatting with you about it. The community of Secret treasure hunters is growing and I’m proud to be part of it. No matter your skill level feel free to jump on board as we all work together to uncover the next casque. Let’s get started.

The tale begins over three-hundred years ago, when the Fair People – the goblins, fairies, dragons, and other fabled and fantastic creatures fled the Old World for a new land, seeking haven from the ways of Man. With them came their precious jewels: diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls… But then the Fair People vanished, taking with them their twelve fabulous treasures. And they remained hidden until now…Across North America, these twelve treasures, over ten-thousand dollars in precious jewels, are buried. The key to finding each can be found within the twelve full color images and verses of the book. Yet The Secret is much more than that. It’s stories bring awareness of our surroundings. It expands our thoughts about immigration and heritage. It brings a lighter perspective about current society. So come along and learn not only the whereabouts of the Fair People’s treasure, but also the modern forms and hiding places of their descendants: the Toll Trolls, Maitre D’eamons, Elf Alphas, Tupperwerewolves, Freudian Sylphs, Culture Vultures, West Ghosts and other delightful creatures in the world around us. The Secret is a field guide to them all.

Lots of “armchair treasure hunts” have been published over the years, most notably Masquerade (1979) by British artist Kit Williams. Masquerade promised a jewel-encrusted golden hare to the first person to unravel the riddle that Williams cleverly hid in his art. In 1982, while everyone in Britain was still madly digging up hedgerows and pastures in search of the golden hare, The Secret: A Treasure Hunt was published in America. The previous year, author and publisher Byron Preiss had traveled to 12 locations in the continental U.S. (and possibly Canada) to secretly bury a dozen ceramic casques. Each casque contained a small key that could be redeemed for one of 12 jewels Preiss kept in a safe deposit box in New York. The key to finding the casques was to match one of 12 paintings to one of 12 poetic verses, solve the resulting riddle, and start digging.

Since 1982, only three of the 12 casques have been recovered. The first was located in Grant Park, Chicago, in 1984 by a group of teenagers. The second was unearthed in 2004 in Cleveland by two members of the Quest4Treasure forum. The 3rd and most recent was found in Boston by a family of Discovery Channel fans. Watching the show Expedition Unknown got them interested in joining the hunt. The show brought the Secret back into the main stream media with an episode airing on January 17 of 2018. By October of 2019 the third caques was being excavated with the family, film crew and adventure host Josh Gates in the north end of Boston. With a whole new generation of treasure hunters now joining the search find number 4 is only a few shovel scoops away.

Where will the next one be found?? Are the other ones still even out there?? Tragically Preiss was killed in an auto accident in the summer of 2005. Many claim he was the only one that could answer these kind of questions and knew the exact spots where the boxes were hidden. Now several decades later the hunt for his casques continues and his adventure lives on.