![]() ![]() The discovery itself was a little messy, since the man who found it apparently had gained inside information about the general location from an ex-girlfriend of Williams’s. It was dug up in a park in the county of Bedfordshire near a monument to Catherine of Aragon, underneath the tip of the shadow she casts at noon on the equinox. Another, disturbingly, sent him a disembodied, blood-covered plastic hand.Īfter two years of ransacked gardens, the rabbit was finally found. ![]() A group of hunters appeared at his doorstep at 3 a.m. The search for the treasure drove the world wild-or at least a certain portion of the world.Īs an article in the literary journal Hazlitt describes it, “Masqueraders dug up acres of countryside, traveled hundreds of thousands of miles … and occasionally got stuck halfway up cliffs or were apprehended by police while trespassing on historic properties.” Desperate treasure-seekers wrote Williams voluminous letters both lauding him and threatening him. Written and illustrated by artist Kit Williams, Masquerade is a series of fantastical images-such as the sun dancing with the moon-that contained clues to the location of a real-life treasure buried somewhere in England: a golden rabbit about the size of a paperback book and worth several thousand pounds. This gorgeous 1979 British book kicked off the era of the modern armchair treasure hunts. ![]() Kit Williams And Frank Dunlop / Graham Turner/GettyImages ![]()
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