servantofone
Greenie
- Jun 20, 2017
- 13
- 8
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
This may have been discussed before, but I just happened across this video, so forgive me if I'm rehashing.
Forrest Fenn always says that he never said the treasure was buried (and never said it wasn't either), but...
Is this a Freudian Slip of the tongue at 34m 16s of the video below? No one led him into using the word "buried" here, and if you knew you didn't bury the treasure, how likley are you to slip up and say "buried" if you actually set it on the ground and walked away?
He quickly corrects it...
https://youtu.be/8RzrIu3hMec?t=34m16s
The next part of my theoy is more difficult to explain without rambling, but try to follow me.
If people start assuming the treasure is buried but it isn't, and you didn't want that to be a clue, what's the point of correcting people?
If you never said it and people assume it INCORRECTLY, it's still not a clue, it's a red herring.
But, if people assume it is buried and IT REALLY IS, now it's a clue born out of an assumption that's CORRECT. So the fact that everyone assumes it's buried starts narrowing things down a bit. So now correcting people, saying you never said that, attempts to keep things open a bit more.
I feel like scenario #2 is more likely. The treasure really is buried, so there's more of a reason to tell people he never said that, so people don't get a free clue for nothing.
Forrest Fenn always says that he never said the treasure was buried (and never said it wasn't either), but...
Is this a Freudian Slip of the tongue at 34m 16s of the video below? No one led him into using the word "buried" here, and if you knew you didn't bury the treasure, how likley are you to slip up and say "buried" if you actually set it on the ground and walked away?
He quickly corrects it...
https://youtu.be/8RzrIu3hMec?t=34m16s
The next part of my theoy is more difficult to explain without rambling, but try to follow me.
If people start assuming the treasure is buried but it isn't, and you didn't want that to be a clue, what's the point of correcting people?
If you never said it and people assume it INCORRECTLY, it's still not a clue, it's a red herring.
But, if people assume it is buried and IT REALLY IS, now it's a clue born out of an assumption that's CORRECT. So the fact that everyone assumes it's buried starts narrowing things down a bit. So now correcting people, saying you never said that, attempts to keep things open a bit more.
I feel like scenario #2 is more likely. The treasure really is buried, so there's more of a reason to tell people he never said that, so people don't get a free clue for nothing.
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