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unusual facts about buried treasure



Ravenchase

Ravenchase was named in tribute to Edgar Allan Poe, who lived in Richmond, Virginia for a time and was an avid code and cipher enthusiast, and also a formative influence on popularizing the idea of buried treasure, treasure hunting and mystery.


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Give Me a Home Among the Gumtrees

It was originally performed as a satirical number in Johnson and Brown's comedy act at the Flying Trapeze Cafe in Fitzroy, Melbourne and was first recorded in 1975 on the Captain Rock album Buried Treasure on Mushroom Records.

Knox's Headquarters State Historic Site

The house and its grounds were the setting and subject of the children's haunted-house novel Buried Treasure (1919), by the best-selling children's author Henry Everett McNeil.

PopCo

The novel has been compared to Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, with similarities including a buried treasure subplot and flashbacks to Bletchley Park.

The Curse of Oak Island

The Curse of Oak Island follows two brothers, Marty Lagina and Rick Lagina, originally from Kingsford, Michigan, through their effort to find the speculated - and as yet undiscovered - buried treasure, believed to have been concealed through extraordinary means on Oak Island.

Treasure map

One of the earliest known instances of a document listing buried treasure is the copper scroll, which was recovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls near Qumran in 1952.