Jarrod Harris has always had a dream that he would one day find a long lost treasure. After watching a movie about treasure hunters as a child he was certain he'd find one. Almost 17 years to the day after watching that movie Jarrod Harris did.
(prHWY.com) September 19, 2012 - Seattle, WA -- Jarrod Harris has always had a dream that he would one day find a long lost treasure. After watching a movie about treasure hunters as a child he was certain he'd find one. Almost 17 years to the day after watching that movie Jarrod Harris did.
"I was searching the Internet when I found a secret code", said Jarrod Harris. "I just knew that there was something about this code that would be special. I spent several days de-coding it and discovered it was a list of passages from books."
Jarrod Harris was unable to find all the passages of the books on his own. It was his friend, Sam Wise who recommended that he use an
e-discovery software program. This program is designed to find certain passages within books, documents and emails.
"I had a vision that I would have to go searching for each passage on my own", said Jarrod Harris. "I was just picturing myself sitting there going through book after book. Some of those books were thousands of pages long. It could have taken years to find it."
The e-discovery software program helped Jarrod Harris save several day of searching. He was able to put in a phrase that was found in the secret code and sit back and wait. Sometimes it took the program several seconds to find the passage, other times it could be longer. It all depended upon how many pages the program needed to search.
"I wasn't sure it would work at first", said Harris. "But it seemed to really collect all the data that I need to find the treasure."
Jarrod Harris took all the data that he uncovered from the search and spent several days piecing it together. The information had several coordinates, locations and other information. All of the information Jarrod Harris put into one huge treasure hunt.
"It took days to create the treasure hurt after I got the data but it was worth it", said Harris.
Upon creating the treasure hunt Jarrod Harris took several of his friends and went on a search to find out exactly what he would find. After three days of searching the group found several ancient pictures and old coins.
"It was really fun and totally amazing", said Carol Canvas, a friend who went on the treasure hunt. "I didn't think we'd find anything and we did. It was fun and totally unexpected."
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