On the 24th of January, in 1981, the TV program ‘In Search of…”, hosted by Leonard Nimoy, featured an episode on Coral Castle. It was called ‘The Castle of Secrets‘.
The video has been posted on youtube and is available to watch below.
It is understood that after Ed’s passing in late 1951, a piece of paper appearing like a treasure map was found in Ed’s room, which is the top part of the tower.
The steps and doorway to Ed’s room.
The last part of the video contains reference to the Coral Castle Treasure Map:
They also found $3,800 in crisp one hundred dollar bills, and what resembled a treasure map. All attempts to follow the directions on the map were futile. Nothing seemed to correspond to our normal three-dimensional geometry.
I am asked about this often. The only other reference to the map that I am aware of is within the Coral Castle Book by Carrol Lake.
Among the papers that were found was a piece of paper which turned out to be a code map for a treasure cache in the grounds. It began with, “Start at the pump and go 20 paces” and so on. Meticulous following of those instructions led to nowhere – and to no treasure. This cache has never been found – if it really existed.
Although intriguing, I am not too concerned with it. I believe Ed had plenty of time to encode his secrets through other means and that this is not critical to the technical understanding.
It is also entirely possible that the treasure map was not complete; Ed may have had plans to finish it – but his end came too soon and he never got the chance.
More information will be posted on Code 144 if it becomes available.
Hi jeremy was just reading over your, post here and wondered, something considering what you said as follows.
“They also found $3,800 in crisp one hundred dollar bills, and what resembled a treasure map. All attempts to follow the directions on the map were futile. Nothing seemed to correspond to our normal three-dimensional geometry.”
3800 bucks divide by the one hundred dollar bill = 38 nice number..
how about the hundred dollar American bill from 1951 or thereabouts.
Benjamin Franklin , independence hall in Philadelphia you there recently?? hmm lightning rods, bells, bifocals and more… a bit more there.
try this almost a loop
http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Independence+Hall+Parking,+Walnut+Street,+Philadelphia,+PA,+United+States&daddr=170+S+Independence+Mall+W,+Philadelphia,+PA+19106+(Grand+Lodge+of+Pennsylvania)&hl=en&ll=39.949737,-75.159144&spn=0.013785,0.02517&sll=39.953738,-75.149934&sspn=0.027568,0.05034&geocode=FYSSYQIdhk2F-yEIqP7xY0gNYikTyTIIMMbGiTEaqHURYe3Faw%3BFUqlYQIdkk2F-yEPwAbBpn752CnD83glg8jGiTE4FFROTmY4ow&oq=indep&mra=ls&t=m&z=16
more on currency . . . .
http://butikmewah.com/1951-silver-franklin-half-dollar-coin-philadelphia-mint
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_one_hundred-dollar_bill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Hall_%28United_States%29
considering that independence hall is on walnut street? what was the wood that ed used in his workshop, you then head west, then north on sweet 16th street the east down chestnut street and south on 6th street, you are now in the east, was the reader not supposed to be in the west or was it the east I can never remember? maybe I am just finding things in this location however there is much information within the lodge, so maybe the map extends out of the lodge to also encompass an extra dimension, that being represented within the map of Independence hall to the lodge, Independence hall is the flip side of the 100 dollar bill. now if your take a path to 38th street the corner of chestnut and walnut, there is Samson street number 3800 to be exact.
http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Independence+Hall+Parking,+Walnut+Street,+Philadelphia,+PA,+United+States&daddr=170+S+Independence+Mall+W,+Philadelphia,+PA+19106+(Grand+Lodge+of+Pennsylvania)+to:39.9515774,-75.1696629+to:39.95117,-75.17888+to:Sansom+St&hl=en&ll=39.949293,-75.157213&spn=0.05356,0.100679&sll=39.960478,-75.185366&sspn=0.053552,0.100679&geocode=FYSSYQIdhk2F-yEIqP7xY0gNYikTyTIIMMbGiTEaqHURYe3Faw%3BFUqlYQIdkk2F-yEPwAbBpn752CnD83glg8jGiTE4FFROTmY4ow%3BFdmcYQIdggCF-ynzvVvxMMbGiTGVz7EyffzvIw%3BFUKbYQIdgNyE-ykTZ5viR8bGiTFr5kpXzp1Qqg%3BFeynYQId8o6E-w&mra=dpe&mrsp=3&sz=14&via=2,3&t=m&z=14
ok if you take the latter map and add a new destination and start to type coral castle, an auto-fill will come up saying “coral near castle avenue” press that, then after it has loaded it will say did you mean a different coral near castle avenue, if you click that it re routes you back through an interesting path along vine street, there were vines in the lodge, in the paintings, also the interesting loops this path takes is, kind of like what the wrapping and unwrapping in your video was explaining, wonder if someone would be determined enough to sit and draw out the vine loops into street roads around the lodge? interestingly, 3800 sansom st is directly 2.5km east of the lodge, sansom is an anagram for samson!!!
http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Independence+Hall+Parking,+Walnut+Street,+Philadelphia,+PA,+United+States&daddr=170+S+Independence+Mall+W,+Philadelphia,+PA+19106+(Grand+Lodge+of+Pennsylvania)+to:39.9515774,-75.1696629+to:39.95117,-75.17888+to:Sansom+St+to:Coral+near+Castle+Avenue,+Philadelphia,+PA,+United+States&hl=en&ll=39.963635,-75.160561&spn=0.053549,0.100679&sll=39.949293,-75.157213&sspn=0.05356,0.100679&geocode=FYSSYQIdhk2F-yEIqP7xY0gNYikTyTIIMMbGiTEaqHURYe3Faw%3BFUqlYQIdkk2F-yEPwAbBpn752CnD83glg8jGiTE4FFROTmY4ow%3BFdmcYQIdggCF-ynzvVvxMMbGiTGVz7EyffzvIw%3BFUKbYQIdgNyE-ykTZ5viR8bGiTFr5kpXzp1Qqg%3BFeynYQId8o6E-w%3BFSocYgId_KKF-yEvylPIiA4SVimnFk3XPMjGiTGeOq4hFwqSRQ&oq=coral+castle&mra=ls&via=2,3&t=m&z=14
Strange, my copy of the English Tour Guide, directly from Coral Castle says “35 – $100 bills – his life savings.”