The Clues So Far

What have we learned so far about the Hunnicup Treasure? This post is full of spoilers for episode 13, Decomposition of Sea Life, and episode 14, Salt Damage. If you haven’t listened yet, and don’t want to know about this stuff, you can listen now and hear it all there first. If you haven’t heard it yet… maybe you should subscribe on Spotify, Google, Sticher, or iTunes?

Objects we found:

  • Some reel to reel audio recordings

  • A bolt (maybe from a hatch? a boat hatch?)

  • Petrified wood

  • Helen Sr’s watch (it says IIII instead if IV where the four should be)

On the tape, we learned that Helen Sr was disappointed in her family. She thought they were getting worse! Her son Horace went mad trying to decipher the Eurypides series. Too many Harriets, not enough Helens. She made this treasure as a way of leading her family to greatness again. She thought it would be the greatest puzzle of all time.

She starts with a poetic clue:

My hidden trove has withered some
Its glory faded from its mother tongue
Spy a hill topped with tumbled stones
Recondite store amid these temple bones
Here I set my furtive wealth
Espy my cache; defeat my stealth

And she gives us two other hints later:

  • To settle a score you must walk through the door

  • What looks like metal may need mettle. Like with two T[s]

We don’t know what comes next! But we have ideas.

Anders:

  • The “tumbled stones” and “temple bones” seem to indicate a ruined temple

  • Maybe because it’s “faded from its mother tongue” it’s been moved from one country to another?

Helen:

  • I was licked by a cat today, and it’s been really weighing on my mind

  • There are some cat references in the poem. 1) Espy my (cat)che and 2) FURtive wealth

  • So, maybe Cat-Bolt is a clue


Max McCal