The Portland Treasure Map (Classic)

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🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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A map in the archives of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library in Portland, Oregon may be the key to finding buried treasure that has yet to be found. This episode was produced in partnership with Travel Portland.

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0:00.0	So, April, I am told that you are in possession of a treasure map.
0:09.4	I have never before found something so unusual in an archive, but yes, I have brought you a treasure map.
0:16.5	Yes.
0:19.4	What kind of treasure are we talking about here?
0:21.5	We're talking piles of rubies and gems?
0:24.0	Is it gold de blooms?
0:25.0	What are we getting into?
0:26.6	So I think it's just straight up cash.
0:29.0	What's wrong with that?
0:30.1	Sweet.
0:31.1	Really more practical when you get right down to it.
0:33.4	Yeah, you want to see it?
0:34.8	Yeah.
0:35.7	Okay, so this is the treasure map.
0:38.3	And if you doubted me at all, this absolutely looks like a treasure map, right?
0:43.4	It really has the quality of what you would want from a treasure map.
0:46.4	It's like yellowed, worn around the edges, like smudged.
0:51.0	It's got these long strings of capital letters, not all of them written in the right
0:57.0	direction. And right on there, you can see, it does say in black ink, it says money. So it's definitely
1:03.2	wanting to lead you to something. It says in the middle, it says in the middle circled and pencil.
1:10.2	It says, all have died.
1:12.3	Is that something that we should do?
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