The Lost Danish Treasure Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 9/18/2010
Difficulty:
5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

[SWE] Denna är tyvärr inte möjlig att lösa på svenska. Dock kan man kanske behöva kunna en aning svenska för att lösa slutet.

THREE IMPORTANT ITEMS FOR THE FIRST STEP HAVE BEEN REMOVED SO IT IS NO LONGER POSSIBLE TO SOLVE THIS PUZZLE.
HOWEVER, I WILL NOT DISABLE IT YET. THE CACHE IS STILL THERE AND THERE MIGHT BE PEOPLE THAT HAVE SOLVED THE FIRST STEP.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE IS YET TO BE SEEN.

The Lost Danish Treasure

In the year 1678 a secret armada of three Danish ships headed towards the Swedish island Trossö, soon to become Karlskrona. The mission was to contact the farmer Vitus Andersson and help him to throw out the Swedes. The ships were crowded with Danish soldiers and spies. That we know from the history lessons in school.
However, what was a well kept secret for centuries was that one of the ships also held a large treasure. The intention was to use the gold to bribe the native farmers and fishermen in order to start a riot. Many of them were more Danish by heart than Swedish so this was most probably a very clever plan by the Danish king Christian V.

To begin with everything went very well for the Danish ships. When they reach the archipelago southwest of Trossö a dense fog rolled in from the sea and the three ships were completely hidden from the Swedish military forces. The plan was to go north of a large island with a forest of hazel trees and head directly towards Trossö. However, when the fog rolled in the Danish commander Jensen and his English second captain Smith decided to try for a sneak attack. Instead of heading northeast directly towards Trossö the ships headed north after the island in order to follow the coastline to approach Trossö from the north. Again, a clever plan by the Danish but now they had run out of luck.

In the fog the navigation was a difficult task. This was long before the GPS age and the maps looked better than they were accurate. When the Danish ships were about to pass yet another island they realized, too late, that the island to their right was not an island but instead the mainland. With the wind coming in from the south they were soon trapped in the mud.

This was the end of the last Danish attempt to free Blekinge and a year later king Karl XI founded Karlskrona on the island Trossö.

The only thing that remains of the brave Danish men is this history. The ships have since long been treated as lost to the sea and the treasure has never been found. Was it dropped in the sea to avoid the Swedes from getting hold of it or did any of the Danish men managed to escape with it? No one knows and until recently no one has really cared to try finding it. But things have changed.

Almost a year ago some kids were playing in the water close to Nättraby when they found a bottle with an old message inside. The message was covered with nonsense writings and the kids were about to throw the bottle back to the sea when I by luck managed to get hold of it. I have now spent quite some time trying to decipher the code, because I am sure it is a code, but I have failed. I thing the message is related to the Danish armada back in 1678 and that there for sure exists a treasure.

Personally I do not care about the treasure but I am eager to get the solution to the message and hopefully also the end of the history. So all you treasure hunters, please help me to solve this mystery.

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All my love to you dear Maria, Adam Smith

Tricky? Get some inspiration from The Code Book by Simon Singh or from The Gold Bug story by Edgar Allan Poe (visit link) )

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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