FRANKLIN COUNTY, MA – It’s a mystery within a mystery and both now have answers. For weeks, a $26,000 gold statue was hidden in the woods as part of a treasure hunt. Seekers followed daily clues and an ever-shrinking circle on a map that eventually pushed the search into Massachusetts. The game creators are New Hampshire natives who never expected anyone to find it this soon, but it has been snatched. The interaction was caught on a trail camera that monitors the prize.
“We were like is he CIA? On the camera, he looked like Snowden. Snowden-esque,” laughed Jason Rohrer and Tom Bailey, creators of Project Skydrop. “Suddenly I heard my wife shouting something is gone, something is gone! I thought my kid left something at the house, then she was like the treasure is gone!”
The duo had little information about the winner other than secondhand accounts from people who met him as he exited the forest.
“He told them he was a meteorologist. We thought maybe that’s a cover,” joked Rohrer and Bailey.