Ian's Story: "Found It"
This is my 3rd year searching for the rock. The last 2 years I was searching on the complete opposite end of the valley from where it had be found. Not this year, I figured it would be south somewhere since it had be north 2 years in a row. I started my search off sunset/post area as the clues seemed to do with writing. I had then moved toward Sloan and jean, and had spent 2 weeks looking around out there. I had pretty much given up once the boulder highway clues were announced, but with the last picture clue yesterday (blue diamond) I figured it was time to start looking again. I grew up in the area so once the I put the clues together it had made sense. I knew off blue diamond and hualaipai was a power line road that ran along a water retention basin. Along the power line road was a row of boulders (row row row your boulder) And a line of square concrete blocks chained together (chain gang, these rocks don't roll). I went out Saturday night and searched for a bit in the dark. I found a few mattresses and knew I had to be getting close. I put a rock in the road to mark how far I had searched so I could pick up in the same spot the next morning. Turns out the rock was about 50 feet further from where I had stopped Saturday night.

Vardell 2013 Jack 2014


Live interview December 21, 2015 at 4:45 pm (With Larry Martino)
Larry: The World Famous Jingle Bell Rock has been found! Congratulations to Ian and his wife Megan. Ten thousand dollar reward, all yours from Pawn Plaza and 96.3 KKLZ. What are you going to do with all that cash this holiday season?
Ian: Pay off some bills
Larry: Well man I know that feeling buddy well Good. Glad we were able to help you do that at least. So, uhh, do you play Jingle Bell Rock year after year or is the first time you've played?
Ian: Uhhh this is my 3rd year playing
Larry: 3rd year playing, Ok and have you gotten close in previous years?
Ian: Nope, I've gone to the opposite side of the valley every time.
Larry: Okay, so this year... a lot of people, as always, complaining that these clues made absoulutly no sense. Did they make a little bit of sense to you this year?
Ian: Um, I was way off in the beginning, but once I got the right area, and everything clicked, and everything was right there.
Larry: Was there a clue that really helped you narrow it down, the area where it might be?
Ian: Uum, the "Row of row, row your boulder" and "the chain gang". this is a, this area all made sense.
Larry: So, so what was near there that made those clues make sense.
Ian: Um, down the road, there was a whole row of boulders which the rock was behind, and next to that there was square blocks that were all chained together.
Larry: Very cool, so now, nobody knows exactly where it was found except for you and the person who hid it so, uhh, where exactly was this year's Jingle Bell Rock found?
Ian: Uhhh, just south of Blue Diamond off of Hualapai, there's a powerline road. Take that out just about a hundred yards or so, and it was right there.
Larry: And, was it behind anything, under.. it, was it hidden in plain sight?
Ian: It was behind a bunch of rocks.
Larry: Okay, but it was in plain sight?
Ian: Yup.
Larry: You didn't have to do any digging?
Ian: Nope.
Larry: Alrightie.. and uhh, you know, there was a lot of clues about, uh you know, pens and calendars... Did all that make sense?
Ian: Yeah once you find the rock, .heh heh,
Larry: So was there stuff near there or what?
Ian: There was uhh, there was stuff around the rock and underneath it
Larry: Okay
Ian: But uhh, yeah, there was a mattress right across the road
Larry: Oh, oh, the godfather clues
Ian: Yeah...
Larry: heh heh heh hah
Ian: There were a bunch of fish tanks that were broken
Larry: No kiddin, well that's cool. So once again, that's in the South West part of town?
Ian: Yup.
Larry: Kinda west of mountain sage, would you say?
Ian: Yes.
Larry: Okay, and once again it's on... is that power line road. Is that what that's called?
Ian: uh, it's just like a, it's just a...
Larry: or Hualapai
Ian: It's Hualapai
Larry: It's Hualapai, just south of Blue Diamond Road. Ten thousand dollar grand prize, and uh, did you have any help this year.
Ian: Um, I had some friends out looking with me, but when we found it, it was just me and the wife.
Larry: That's cool, what did that feel like, of course that feeling when you finally see it?
Ian: Huge amount of relief...
Larry: heh heh heh hah
Ian: It eats at me every, every year until I, it's, it's either found or I find it.
Larry: It does drive people crazy, I gotta say, people say I'm never gonna play this game again and then the following year, all right, I'm going to try it again,
Ian: Exactly
Larry: Well congratulations to you guys. Man, I hope you have a very merry christmas and a happy new year. So happy you were able to find the Jingle Bell Rock. Thanks for coming in, and uh, enjoy all that cash this season.
Ian: Thank you