Reports of a find related to Image 11 & Verse 3

• In October of 2019, there were widespread claims that the casque linked to Image 11 and Verse 3 had been located in Boston, Massachusetts.
• The casque was supposedly found in Langone Park in the North End.  A newspaper article with very limited information was published in the Boston Globe.
• No real evidence of the find has been produced, but that silence may be due at least in part to the non-disclosure agreements that many of the participants signed with the producers of Expedition Unknown.  (A show about the latest developments was broadcast on 10/30/19.)
• This page is a place where people can discuss the possible find and what it might mean.  Note: There seem to be strong feelings in connection with the claim.  Please be courteous to all users and respect the fact that different people may have different thresholds of proof and different criteria for deciding whether a casque has been found.

Let's start with the shape in the woman's sleeve:

Baseball home plate	Image 11	Fenway Park
Everyone involved in The Secret seems to agree that the shadow in the woman's cuff (above middle) is a clue and has some relation to baseball.  Some people think that the shape matches the shape of a baseball home plate (above left). Other people think that the asymmetrical five-sided shape appears to be a hybrid between a home plate and the shape of Fenway Park (above right), the legendary baseball field in Boston.      So this is as good a place as any to start your evaluation.  Ask yourself: Which of the two interpretations above seems most likely?     If you answer "Fenway Park" then... great, you're on your way to one of the worlds most famous and revered baseball stadiums, located right on the edge of the Back Bay Fens.  While you're there, you'll probably find some strong matches for phrases like "the coliseum with metal walls" and "a green tower of lights in the middle section."  Those connections are spelled out in our proposed Image 11 solution.     And if you answer "home plate" then... great, you're still on your way to Fenway Park, because it is by far the most famous baseball field in all of the greater Boston area!  Any search connecting Boston and baseball is going to tell you to start with Fenway Park, the oldest stadium in Major League Baseball and the home of the Red Sox.

So now you're by Fenway.  What do you see?

  We know from all the other casques that the image should contain multiple matches to confirm that one is approaching the right area for the casque.  This isn't even a complete list, but here are a baker's dozen of the strongest visual clues supporting our proposed Image 11 solution.

Matches		Interpretations
		Anyone looking around Boston for possible destinations would notice the similarity between the Back Bay Fens and Image 11.  The fens form the shape of a bent left arm, with a clear shoulder, elbow, forearm, and hand. The Muddy River that flows through the fens creates a winding blue line that weaves back and forth in the area between the "elbow" and the "shoulder."    In addition, two city streets beside the fens create the impression of an upraised thumb and a straight-line bracelet that goes across the "wrist" of the arm.
		The bird's perch forms a large, boldface, sans-serif T.  It is the symbol for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (known to locals as "the T").      The MBTA Fenway Station is located on Park Avenue, exactly where the woman's thumb would be in the "arm map" of the Back Bay Fens.  The MBTA Kenmore Station is actually closer to Fenway Park, though, and it's the main one used by fans going to the park for a game.  Kenmore Station is located in Kenmore Square.
		The triangle on the stole resembles the most famous triangle in Boston: the huge Citgo sign, located at 600 Beacon Street, near Kenmore Square.  Both have a wide rectangle framing a set of concentric triangles that point upwards.  Anyone crossing Beacon Street between BU and the fens would have a view of the sign. (Citgo sign photo by Beyond My Ken - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link)
		The symbol on the woman's stole indicates we're looking for a street grid that forms a double "A." Because Beacon street runs at a diagonal relative to the regular street grids, there are at least two strong candidates (shown at left).  The place where both of those patterns overlap is at Kenmore Square on Beacon Street.
		The similarity between Image 11 and the keyhole design of the Kelleher Rose Garden in the Fens was one of the first connections made by searchers in Boston.  Both have large, concentric circles connected by a thin line to a rectangle below.     The Kelleher Rose Garden is located directly south of Fenway Park in what would be the bicep of our Back Bay Fens arm map.  Anyone starting in Kenmore Square and passing Fenway Park would reach the rose garden by continuing in the same direction.
		The rectangular front panel on the woman's dress (matching the rectangular part of the keyhole shape) has a pattern that very strongly matches a design on a planter structure in the Kelleher Rose Garden.
		The flared, black hair on either side of the woman in the picture resembles the wings spread out behind the figure of "Victory" in a World War II memorial in the Fens.  The memorial is northeast of the rose garden and in the direction of the turnpike.
		The "checkerboard" curve below the globe resembles the arch of the Boylston Street Bridge.  We see it as we pass the north end of the Victory Gardens.  (And the connection is emphasized by the reflection on the tabletop.)
		Walking across the Charlesgate overpass, pedestrians have the chance to look down and see an unusual structure tucked in beside the freeway.  It's a circle and a curve, both made of bricks, with steps connecting them and a few lamp posts scattered around.  The official name and purpose of the structure are unknown but it has been in the same spot for decades.  Most people involved in The Secret call it "Two Circles" or "the 2C site."      The proportion of the two circles is captured perfectly in Image 11 and even the diagonal line connecting them is perfect.  This is no coincidence.
		The second gray shadow in the woman's cuff resembles an outstretched leg, with a pointed toe, a clear heel, and a widening leg.   The shape is a very strong match for the Charlesgate sidewalk at the Two Circles site.  Unlike a normal city sidewalk, it has an angular bend it in to accommodate the offramp.  And, because the street has limited space, the sidewalk narrows to a "toe" at the intersection.  The red trace in the image at left shows the shape from Image 11 superimposed on an aerial of the spot.  (Normally this wiki is skeptical of anything requiring an aerial view, but a searcher on the Charlesgate overpass would have an overhead view of this spot.)
		The streetlights in the Charlesgate area, north of the turnpike, have a very unusual, distinctive design.  They are large spheres held up by little "pegs" at the base.  (Note that the peg below the sphere in the image is different from the rod that gives the angled connection between the two circles, as described above.)
		Prior to 2011, searchers at the bottom of the Charlesgate off-ramp would have seen a white utility box with a flat, overhanging, rectangular lid.  And, behind the box on the side of the off-ramp, a pipe and a joint form a pair of parallel lines (one wide and one narrow) running along the side of the overpass.     This is a very strong image match, and it's hard to see how there could be any reason for that white table in the lower left corner of the image except to recreate this scene.
		Near the white utility box there's an "h" shape formed by the seams in the concrete sidewalk.     This is not a common shape in city sidewalks!  Streetlights are usually placed in a grassy area between the sidewalk and the curb, to leave all of the sidewalk available for pedestrians.  Even when they're placed in a sidewalk like this, it's very rare for them to line up with the sidewalk joint.  (See photos on the Image 11 page for more info.)  And the "h" shape in the painting is even pointing directly at the bright star, as if to tell us that the shape is associated with a bright light.

Matches Linking Image 11 to Langone Park

 So what's the evidence in the other direction?  If people decided that a baseball clue pointed to a recreational field in Langone Park in north Boston, what matches would they see there?

Verse 3

  Okay, so what about the verse?  How well does that match up with the two possible sites?  The chart below offers a comparison.

Evidence for the 2019 Langone Park Claim:

Possibilities

  There appear to be three possibilities to explain the current situation:

1. Byron Preiss buried the casque in Langone Park and then John Jude Palencar, for reasons known only to himself, said "Screw it, I'm going to make the painting irrelevant to the real site and just fill it with a few dozen pictures closely tied to the Back Bay Fens."  This does not seem like a particularly strong theory, but it (presumably) can't be ruled out.
2. Byron Preiss buried the casque in Langone Park and took his usual Polaroid pictures of distinctive features in the immediate area.  Palencar incorporated those pictures into his painting, but all of the corresponding features have disappeared from the park and from the historical records.  Under this theory, the similarities between Image 11 and the landmarks in the Back Bay Fens are all entirely coincidental.  This is at least slightly more plausible than Theory #1, but it still seems highly unlikely.
3. We are currently left with only one plausible theory: Someone is conducting a deliberate hoax (similar to what happened earlier in San Francisco).  If the "plastic box photo" is valid, the connections to a real casque are too strong to be coincidental.  So what presumably happened is that someone made a fake casque out of plaster, scattered the pieces on a construction site, waited for the workers to find them, and called it a victory.  And Expedition Unknown wanted an episode that would bring in viewers (and ad money) so they filled in the gaps with "reenactments," arranged for a gemstone, and wrapped up the whole package into a TV show.  Not a satisfying theory, admittedly, but it appears to be the strongest one so far.

Obviously all of the above could change dramatically if some real evidence of a find is ever produced.

Update 7/3/21

  Summer is here again and, once again, there is a renewed push to bring conformity to all the various pages related to The Secret.  We have received various requests to accept the Expedition Unknown episode as definitive proof and label the Boston casque as found.  Setting aside the obvious question of why people care so much about a wiki they claim not to read, we are willing to give our latest list of reasons for the existence of this page.

1.  This is, as people have pointed out, a wiki devoted to The Secret.  It is not a wiki devoted to Expedition Unknown, and nothing that happens on that show is directly relevant to what we do.
2.  EU is a commercial TV show.  The only reason for its existence is to attract viewers and make money.  The producers have every motivation to go along with a bogus find that makes a good story and they have absolutely no motivation to expose that find and waste a show.  They are, therefore, far from being any sort of reliable judges as to whether a find is valid.
3.  The supposed Boston find of 2019 was very obviously a staged event intended to give a child a fun treasure hunt experience.  And EU went along with it and added even more stagecraft of their own because heartwarming stories about happy children make good TV and attract viewers.  (We are not opposed to making children happy, but, again, this is a wiki about The Secret.  The warmth of the story really isn’t relevant.)
4.  For over a year now we’ve had a chart on this page inviting people to explain some of the “clue-like” features in Image 11 and show how they would match with the Boston claim.  In that time, absolutely no one has offered any ideas.  There just isn’t any match to Langone Park and the image clues overwhelmingly point to a site in the Back Bay Fens.  To believe that Palencar simply put the shape of a baseball plate in Image 11 and then left it to the readers to tear apart some 100 different baseball fields in Boston, looking for the right spot in the right field, does not even begin to pass the sniff test.  Everything we know about these puzzles tells us that there should be many, many images matches narrowing down the right spot.
5.  Because EU presented the Boston find as real, and because so many observers accepted that find without applying any critical reasoning, searchers in other places have now gotten the idea that they should dig holes in other well-maintained sports fields.  New York, Houston, San Francisco, and other cities are now finding holes in their baseball fields, creating all sort of problems for players and parks departments alike.  The idea that Byron Preiss, a baseball fan, would want an army of people to start damaging baseball fields around the country is patently ludicrous.  Baseball fans care about the tiniest and most trivial details, from the height of the pitcher’s mound to the dust on home plate.  They would NEVER want to see people digging random holes in the infield.
6.  EU is obviously not going to come forward and admit that Boston was a hoax, because it would damage their brand and lower their profits.  The other people who participated in the show (Palencar, etc.) may now be realizing some of the unintended consequences of their choices, but they can’t come forward because of their non-disclosure agreements with EU.  The best outcome at this point would be for the person who pulled the hoax to come forward and do the right thing: admit that the casque isn’t real but that the stunt was done with the best of intentions.  The second-best outcome would be for the real Boston casque to be found.  Neither of those things appear to be happening.  So that leaves us with the third-best outcome: This wiki will continue to be the lonely voice of reason, pointing out that the claim is bogus and trying to steer people away from damaging public property.
7.  It is noted that other people created this wiki.  Good job.  But even a glance at the “page history” link on each page will show that the current Chief Editor (Oregonian) did more than 99% of the work in creating the well-organized resource that exists today.  That work created a renewed interest in the puzzle and brought more than 8 million page views to this site.  So the current leadership has a certain “sweat equity” that gives them the right to make the editorial judgment calls.  And this call isn’t a tough one at all.  The Boston casque was bogus and the people who accept it unquestioningly are doing real harm both to this puzzle and to the recreational areas in the puzzle cities.  Because this is a wiki about The Secret, this wiki will stay true to the puzzle itself and stay true to the vision of the author: “It is not the intention of the Fair People to destroy the beauty of nature or Man through their challenge.”  Feel free to dig holes in neglected areas by railroad tracks or muddy backwaters, but please stay away from sports fields and well-maintained lawns and gardens.  The casques are not going to be there.