READ: Discovery of Legendary Golden Owl Ends a 31-Year Treasure Hunt

For over three decades, adventurers and puzzle-solvers have been on the hunt for a mysterious treasure: a golden owl statuette buried back in 1993. This wasn’t just some random hide-and-seek game. French author Régis Hauser, writing under the pseudonym Max Valentin, hid the owl as a way to promote his new book, On The Trail of the Golden Owl. The book was packed with puzzles that, when solved, would reveal the owl’s secret location.