The “Golden Owl” was indeed found on the night of October 2 to 3, announced the person responsible for this treasure hunt which had lasted for 31 years, announcing a “sequel” and a film for 2025. “The solution provided is rigorously accurate, it defines very precisely the location of the cache”, said in a video posted on YouTube a man filmed in the dark, on the page of Editions de la Chouette d’or. He introduces himself as Michel Becker, the one who had the solution.
On October 3, on the Discord network, the internet forum for enigmas, he announced that the countermark of the Golden Owl had been unearthed. This reply had been buried in April 1993 in a place that had to be identified thanks to 11 riddles presented in the book “On the trail of the golden owl”. In often cryptic remarks, the man presenting himself as Michel Becker declared on Sunday that the geographical data constituting the solution had been recorded “at 11:22 p.m.” that night “in the database” of the game. According to him, the person or the group that won asked “absolute anonymity“, and “the Owl is now far from France”.
Digging up the replica allows you to win the owl, a sculpture weighing around ten kilos in precious metals. Its value had initially been estimated at one million francs (150,000 euros). The man introducing himself as Michel Becker gave fans an appointment on April 23 and 24, 2025, the date of the game’s 32nd anniversary: ”To finalize everything that needs to be finalized, this is the date (…) which we hold back, that all may be revealed.”
He promised a “sequel”: “The new Golden Owl will fly from exactly where the first one was buriedfrom April 24″. He considers this delay “sufficient so that the solutions” of the first enigma “can, instead of simply being the subject of the publication of a book, be brought to the screen”. Fans who wish can come forward to testify in this film The creator of the enigma was an author of books on marketing, Régis Hauser, who took the pseudonym Max Valentin and who died in 2009. Michel Becker designed it. the sculpture, made by a goldsmith After a long conflict between Becker and Hauser’s heirs, the game was relaunched in 2021, with new clues about Discord.
Read more
Related News :