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_?_____________?_ Mystery Cache

Hidden : 2/29/2008
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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t was supposed to be the final hiding spot for the ancient loot.. Vinny carefully opened the secret compartment which he had discovered between the 2 large columns, underground in an undocumented tunnel.. After being inspired by viewing movies such as "National Treasure" and watching the "Da Vinci Code" 548 times, he had searched for clues to a treasure, hidden by the Templars that was sure to be somewhere on the planet...

A bizarre chain of unlikely events and "clues" had brought him there. The trail had started with a study of the Knights Templar that went back to 1307, when Pope Clement condemned the Order's members, had them arrested, tortured into giving false confessions, and burned at the stake. Eventually the Templars had disbanded and disappeared. Although this had occured in France, he believed that clues were sure to be elsewhere, perhaps veiled in some popular literature...

...And in 1307 over in Italy, Dante Alighieri was writing the "Divine Comedy". Italian was a very new language at the time, and this poem would eventually pave the way for major acceptance of it. His attention had turned to a 700 year old unsolved mystery that was in the poem at Canto 33.43. A subsequent investigation, along with physical artifacts from his trips to Paris and Rome, (as well as an obscure wine shop just outside Bordeaux) all had led to where he was standing now, opening the secret compartment. He cracked open the box which had supposedly been sealed for ages and found only an envelope with the words: ""Ancient Source Code" written in modern English on the cover. Inside was only a single sheet of parchment with 2 columns of writing...

But what did it mean? Could some lemon juice applied to the document uncover any invisible ink? He squinted as he looked at the paper and noticed a few words that definitely should not be on such a document of that age...Did he somehow stumble upon a different puzzle? Wrinkling his nose, he thought perhaps he was having some bizarre dream and remembered the few "missing" bottles of his case of Sauvignon Blanc that had mysteriously reappeared completely empty when he had gotten up that morning...Vinny also thought to himself and wondered if his coworkers at the top-secret radioactive goat/alien breeding facility had noticed anything amiss about his extended absence...

Directions:
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- North Latitude 40.10.000 ~~~spoiler hint to solve:~~~ + West Longitude 74.42.000
July Fourth code hthJ George Washington
Milky Way B.C. twi ancient code
material world tbph Mona Lisa
understand? hcgtiipe harmony
darkness scjdu national
machine cx humans
England ltgqgtW secure
secrets pxgipbtv freeze
garden scp candle
person zttgV center
money nwethedhx puzzle
Carter (gd speed
cache rxcdX Jesus
angel vcxgtqbjc track
dove btihnh). green
plus twI speak
minus sad cigar
true cpxctbgP sure !
love scp sleep
USA rxaaxgnR snow
right hitqpweap icon
holy tgp free
ears stgtqbjc 1776
coin twi ever
Jew tbph view
art npl. sin
911 ihgxU rose
sex tcxc dig
fair hgtiita you
o tgp gun
fox stgtqbjc fish
cop tcd ring
fire di hide
girl tcxc, pure
new twi mark
time scdrth baby
plan tcxc panic!
lost hgtiita light
back tgp noble
moon stgtqbjc dawn
math cti clock
creek di loves
cloak nitcxc. truth
thorn twI magic
cross vcxcxpbtg detail
demon iwvxt ghost
escape hgtiita drama
serene tgp a soul
golden stgtqbjc dagger
master tcd heaven
serenity stgscjw Templar
pyramid di trespass
mountain iwvxt lightning
Pink Floyd stgscjw. overrated
Freemason sddV zrja! question !
the meaning of life * Ronald Reagan





This cache has 3 coins for the first 3 finders, and some decent swag, including an electronic sudoku game! Good luck! Note (2/12/11): the cache is stuck in place, however the logbook and swag can be removed and replaced. I'll be putting the logbook in a separate container, and leaving a pair of tongs the next time I make it out there in the spring.

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Final 130 feet GO TO THE RIGHT!!!
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[nevele] vf nyy lbh arrq..

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)