The mention of caves again whetted our appetite for adventure, and we took off for the famous Sutro Baths tunnel, where we met crypto investors James and Julian Spediacci. What would these identical twins, 36, do with the treasure?
“Put it in crypto,” James said.
“Buy an ape,” Julian volunteered.
The brothers regretted missing a hunt for rare coins hosted last year by Witter Coin, a store in the Richmond. They weren’t going to miss out again. Julian, whose luscious curls and layered necklaces gave him a seafaring look, explained that his plentiful jewelry was inspired by a more earthbound culture.
“I’m into turquoise, silver, the Southwestern vibe,” Julian said. But you can never have enough precious metals.
For some hunters, the journey is the destination. A software engineer who identified himself only as D said he just wanted to get away from his desk.
“I was in the middle of doing some things on the computer that were really frustrating me, and I was like, you know what, this is a good excuse,” he said, adding that the treasure itself wasn’t important.
“I guess I’d pay taxes on it,” he said. “If I have a theory, and that theory is right, that’s super exciting. And if it’s not, I still got to spend the day outside.”
Even our best guesses, with Claude AI chatbot assistance, were way off — proof that you can’t rely on the robots for everything, kids.
Just before publication time, organizers announced that somebody had found the treasure near Mount Sutro. The correct way to interpret the clues, it turns out, was by plotting all the mentioned landmarks on a map, drawing lines between them, and finding the point where they intersect. Better luck next time, buccaneers.
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