Cover image: The “golden owl” sculpture is made of gold, silver and diamonds. Its value was estimated, when the search for the treasure began in 1993, at 1 million francs, or 150,000 euros. ROMAIN WEBER / RADIO FRANCE/MAXPPP
“The eagle owl was found on October 3, 2024”laconically announces, since Thursday, October 3, the official site of the most famous treasure hunt in France. Since then, the “owl” community has been in turmoil, at the end of a game that lasted more than three decades and experienced multiple adventures, sometimes of a legal nature.
Ask your questions now. Starting at 3 p.m., Morgane Tual, journalist for the Pixels service of World and author of several articles on the “eagle owl”, will try to answer it.
Testify. Have you directly or indirectly encountered the mystery of the “eagle owl”? Share your memories, your anecdotes in this chat and, above all, tell us how you feel since the announcement of the discovery of the cache!
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