ObsessedJared

I grew up in rural Vermont, where free time meant climbing trees, poking around streams, and making my own fun. I first heard about armchair treasure hunts when a news program was talking about two winners finding some gold. I didn't catch the name of the hunt, but it involved Star Trek and a Beale cipher. In the pre-Internet days, information was scarce! Many years later, I discovered that the hunt was The Inheritance Part 2. My first boots on the ground hunt was Captain Kidd and the Missing Crown. It known to be in Catskill, New York, not too out of the way on my big move from northern Vermont to Rochester, New York, for college.

Recently, I've combined my passion for hunts with a historian's impulse by building this Treasure Hunt Database, a project to chronicle armchair treasure hunts past and present. I'm mostly focusing on US-based hunts initially.

Outside of hunts, I'm a big fan of David Bowie and David Lynch. I even helped with the production of the Twin Peaks DVD and Blu-ray sets wherein I am interviewed about the celeb-attended festival I co-organized for a decade. I also appeared on the competitive reality TV show Domino Masters, a sister show to the more widely known LEGO Masters. Finally, when I'm not working on a hunt, you'll probably find me working on some creative project (Photoshop and photo restoration are my happy place)..