After 31 years of intense searching, the Golden Owl was found this Thursday morning

This puzzle lasted 31 years.

Michel Becker, co-organizer of “On the trail of the Golden Owl”, one of the oldest treasure hunts in the world still in progress since its launch on May 15, 1993, said this Thursday, October 3 on the platform Discord that “the countermark of the Golden Owl was dug up during the night from Wednesday to Thursday”.

The winner is not yet known

« We confirm that the Golden Owl countermark was unearthed last night, simultaneously with a solution being sent to the online verification system. There is therefore no point in moving to dig on the location you assume to be the cache. As previously announced, we are verifying the validity of the proposed solution,” announced the painter Michel Becker at exactly 8:26 a.m. this Thursday morning.

However, the winner is not yet known and the location of the Golden Owl has not been communicated.

But what is this Golden Owl?

If you’ve never followed a treasure hunt, you’re probably wondering: what is this Golden Owl?

As recalled Releasewe have to go back in time, to 1993 and more precisely to the night of April 23 to 24. That night, a man who calls himself Max Valentin, who died in 2009, buries a box containing a bronze owl, in an unidentified location in France. But where?

This is the question that has been on the minds of “chouetteurs” and “chouetteurs” for thirty-one years, as the investigators of this treasure hunt call themselves.

Whoever finds it will be seen hand over the replica of the owl in gold, worth 150,000 euros.

This is a very big page which is about to turn.