Shiver me Silicon Valley timbers!
A San Francisco treasure hunter dug up a hidden chest with $10,000 worth of booty after a mysterious group posted a cryptic treasure map online.
“Found it,” the lucky finder posted on X Tuesday along with a photo of an open metal box containing of cash, precious metal ingots, and rare baseball cards.
The find came less than 12 hours after an anonymous group published a pirate-style map to a “chest worth over $10,000,” findable via cryptic, San Francisco-related clues.
“It’s brimming with gleaming ingots, currency, and San Francisco artifacts. About half the value is in gold,” according to the group’s website, which was shared via Reddit.
“Eighteen Bold letters, preserved in a clearing, sight a dark room’s view of brave surfers reeling,” the first clue on the map reads. The modern-day pirates later confirmed their prize had been discovered in Mount Sutro Open Space Preserve southwest of downtown San Francisco.
The map’s final clue – “steadfast basin, where feet part and agree” – apparently referred to a place where a hiking trail splits in two around some large boulders, the website now reads.
The finder, who goes by @wivincent on Twitter, is a “value investor & tech guy from Europe” a spokesperson for the pirates told KRON 4.As for why they hid the chest in the first place: “We always figured treasure hunting would feature more heavily in life. Right alongside quicksand and tattered rope bridges,” the group wrote.
Unfortunately “the science seems to be out on rope bridges” and modern rope bridges are “stronger than ever,” but they could do something about the lack of buried treasure, they added.
