Me2's Ghost of the Treasure Hunt Present 2004

This was just packed! 
and every word just plain worked!

Confidence? You may think you know me and what I may do -will Me2 put it in a big park?-Highland hasnt been used in a long time-Cherokee is soooo close to her house! Is it hidden in the same old places? NOPE-try a new park. Get out there and look at what the Cooler hasnt covered well. The THG was not much help due to the changes in this park. It didn't show a playground -instead horseshoes.

If you recalled any park that had a spooky background you may have a jump on other hunters. Suffering Scream was great for the spirits AND the trains that came through here basically every 1/2 hour -WOW were they loud and screeeechy!

-Plateau WAS the change in ground - from the playground to the field area -
and YES, It turns out these are mysteries that are not all solved yet due to uncomplete records and my ongoing research at RCHS.

You may know about this park or you may not-but your gonna find out!

IN A ST PAUL PARK! not Ramsey County

A FIELD OF DREAMSthe movie based on BASEBALL. "Go the distance" was a main line in the movie as well as go out into the field to find the treasure. I used the earliest REAL clue to be the closest to the hiding spot.

Something I didn't expect anyone to get was "fame" I used this as a 
tri-meaning idea for the 'not so famous baseball players' as well as if you went out in the field you would be close to the 'treasure' AND Cemeteries use 'Apple Blossoms' as a term for FAME-Apple Orchard(taking 2 steps). 

As for illusionor not? Ray (Kevin Costner) in the movie didn't know if what he was seeing was reality or if he was crazy. Fate and tragedywas the fate of those poor baseball players whos tragedy was death before achieving fame.

If you got Baseball -that shoulda been great enough! :)

Playground

This was a fun clue for me - 'restless youth' fit for 'tots' as well as the Urban Legend. The 'laughter' are the 2 faces of the kids on the play equipment on the tot-lot which seperated this playground from any other I have seen it the city. There is one real tot-swing. The skeleton key you ask? -this fit for the theme as well as if you were standing out in the field you could SEE the playground.

The Urban Legend is:
Dead Children PLAYGROUND

The legend is, if you go to Dead Childrens Playground around midnight, you will hear childrens laughter.

http://www.ulrc.com.au/html/grimoire.asp?RefNum=SSRT0047&Page=1&View=Legend&City=Huntsville&State=Alabama

1st off -I was trying something new - With this ghostly theme I had wanted this clue to be invisible or transparent. You would have to highlight it to see it. -didn't work well. Main words in this clue are: decipher,deceiving, exhume, crypted, lurking, trace 

all these words tell you to look deeply into this clue-If you figure these 2 things out you will be way ahead of the group.First letters in the rows are EEIA -backwards is AIEE = 1955 for the year the last of the remains from the Orchard Street Cemetery were moved to Elmhurst, Oakland, Union or Calvary and tranfered into an actual park. A is the 1st letter in the alphabet, I is the 9th letter, E is the 5th letter. -there are ways to find out a year of a park-ie: library, parks and recs, history center.

Now, look at the 3rd word in every line ...the first letter of those words = 
D L L W - if you take the alphabet and reverse the letters 
ABC
ZYX

you get "W O O D" -the translucent circular eye piece was hidden in wood.

Rest In Peace -this park was a cemetery and there was a cemetery near by (Calvary) -- so if you din't find anything IN this clue than maybe you would think of a park near a cemetery.

This clue also told you WHAT you were searching for: lilliputian ocular shape = something that is small and round/circular

"Calling All Angels" by the group TRAIN

Heaven and Angels just plain worked here - GATEWAY DR runs right between Como Lake and this park- ALSO, I blended the wording from pioneer days of St Paul being "THE GATEWAY TO THE GREAT NORTHWEST"! 

don't travel to the wrong side of the TRACKS

Put those 2 lines together and you could get: Take the train near GATEWAY but be on the RIGHT SIDE OF THE TRACKS.

James J. Hill eventually owned the Greath Northern and Northern Pacific Railroads: 
The park is located between the two railroads so don't travel outside the boundaries of the two railroads -take a peek at a map. 

not this pioneer man, but his legacy --don't focus on JAMES J HILL HERE-but his accomplishments in St Paul= RAILROADS and TRAINS

also there is a Train on the playground.

RACKET and GAME and VENUS (Williams) = Tennis

I hate tennis and baseball clues so it was soooo hard for me to give you this clue but there wasnt anyway around it.

some of you looked right at "Freighting" and thought railroading again but in fact I gave you the address to the park here. Look at the First word in the middle of the clue...

Freighting = eight = 8
Persevering = seven = 7
Forgiveness = five = 5

the letters are in proper order in the word to give you a hidden word which happens to be the number :)

875 Orchard

Is there a skullduggery? a game/trick in this clue? Ceasing to exist = death (some of you got dead end and I hoped you may think that -but there really were only 2 parks that I know of with dead ends=Mounds and Orchard).So even if you didn't get the game in here you may get the dead end idea. 

Again I wanted to 'change up' this hunt a bit -raise the bar to new ideas:
hense the photo to help along instead of writing it in the clue.

The photo showed the A and O in greek letters for Alpha and Omega-the beginning and the end. You were to find your answer in the beginning of the clue and the end-somehow...

Ce-st

Wi-me

te-st

Is-ry

now instead of the typical "book end" clue- what I did was take every other line- Look at the first 2 letters in the first and 3rd row ---and the last 2 letters in the 2nd and 4th row --- CE - ME - TE -RY

there are not very many parks near a cemetery (let alone was a cemetery at any time) - this widdled down your parks to probly 6 -then with the other clues you probly shoulda been thinking Orchard was looking good.

OK OK! I was worried at this point that someone would find it and you really want everyone to be happy that a hunt at least goes to 9-11 -soooo, I made this one more difficult. This is the clue I was gonna try "BLOODY MARY quite contrary how does your ghoulish garden grow" ---to get you to a park with a garden near by- I changed this clue to be a bit more vague...



Construe told you there was an anagram in here somewhere:

MEDKIDS-KUDOS! he figured out the beginning of the clue

=A howler's brew = wheelbarrows

but no one figured out (at the end of the clue) 

GREAT HUNT BABE = A GREEN BATHTUB

harvest was to get you to a garden as well- this wonderful garden in the yard next to the park had wheelbarrows FULL OF FLOWERS in it AND A green bathtub full of FLOWERS!!!!

Pitts, Charlie (Charley, Charles) 

Charlie Pitts was involved in the famous James-Younger Gang Northfield raid in 1876. He was killed 2 weeks after the raid. His bones were packed on ice and sent to St Paul to the state capitol for public viewing. A doctor Murphy ended up with the bones. He embalmed him and allowed people to view him at a different location - eventually disecting him. He actually kept him for 2 years before placing his bones in a pine box and submerging his remains under the rushes and waterlilies at Como Lake.

Turns out: A boy named August saw the box in December of 1878-he had to cut a hole in the lake to get water for local cow(?) (guess the rocks to hold the box under had shifted and the box slightly floated to the open ice). 

This boy ran to town to get the coroner! The whole town was in uproar! horrified because there was a gun shot hole in one of the bones-so everyone thought it was maybe MURDER. It made the Pioneer Press newpaper for a few days! No suspects! police were on alert.

Dr Murphy was out of town when he recieved the information and he headed back to St paul to reclaim his bones. Dr Murphy got back and explained who the bones were and that he was only "bleaching the bone" so he could keep him as a skeleton in his doctors office.

The bones were given back to Dr Murphy (who is related to Dr. Henry Hoyt of St. Paul) who then placed them in Dr Hoyts feild to dry---located at Snelling and Larpenteur Avenues.

eventually though Charlie Pitts skeleton showed up at a museum "Diamond Jims" on highway 13 -then located later in a basement at Murphy's Landing. 

I am actually still researching to find where these bones are now.

Sooooo, Charlie never had a proper burial.... the "watery grave" is COMO LAKE- but don't disturb that 'sacred' area BUT follow a passageway from the lake to the right park- --- 

"the erie fog represented water-a park near a body of water-fog comes off rivers or lakes or bodies of water in this case- becareful...is it just fog from the local lake? or is it Charlie wanting to be buried? ;)

take Victoria from Lake Como through that cool pathway right to Orchard. 1 block walk.

Sacred vicinity was this old cemetery/park

You were looking for 3 things here-TRINITY

Crowned Victor or Victress = Crown Victoria = Victoria St. (Linwood or Orchard)

If you really DISCOVERED this line-you would grin because you knew you were in Orchard NOT Linwood :) 
Discover Colonel Nest with a grin = Colonel Nest = Col.Nest = Colne St.




Jasmine= Jessamine

Now actually I gave you these 3 on purpose-if you line up Colne and Victoria and then walk the Jessamine -then you should come across the deadwood along the fenceline -STOP AND SMELL the Jessamine - this was the street you truly wanted.

Search the perimeter of the park

mans first disobedience was eating an apple -Apple ORCHARD = Orchard Park

which also were the lines in PARADISE LOST by John MILTON

I already gave you street clues yesterday so this street clue should have given you an imaginary line through the center of the park-

If you searched the perimeter on either side of the park along Milton you should come across the treasure site. also if you were already searching the Jesamine line to connect the two streets -Victoria and Colne St -and here is a Milton St clue -Jessamine and Milton would meet right at the dead wood.