WLMPT - World's Longest Mystery Power Trail is a collaborative series of caches started by CinciChewbacca. The goal is to form the world's longest line of mystery caches. Feel free to contribute by creating a puzzle with starting/false West coordinates of W 84 18.000. We hope that a diverse collection of puzzles will give people something to do in this time of distress. Happy puzzle caching!
I’m a big fan of Dan Brown’s novels, The Da Vinci Code and the The Lost Symbol. I’m also a sucker for any books, stories, posters, or artwork that involve hidden secrets, codes, or intriguing stories.
At a yard sale I found a portrait of this old distinguished man, and bought it because looked cool and it was a real oil painting.
It is dated circa 1550, so it’s definitely not modern art, and not the wild stuff that Salvador Dali painted. BTW, Dali’s museum in St Petersburg, Florida is something you need to see if you like art. A friend of mind thinks this is a Renaissance painter and says my ratio of finding golden works versus duds is phenomenal.
At home, and under good lighting and inspection with a powerful magnifying glass, I found something.
It looks like a code of some sort. At least I hope it is, because I’m intrigued by the possibility.
In the man’s facial hair there appears to be numbers. It’s hard to make out, but it looks like the following:
577876129 129117647
I’ve included a picture of the artwork, but I doubt you can see the numbers. It also looks like with the positioning of his hands that he is about to reach under his jacket to reveal something, or maybe I have an over-active imagination.
