Ear: Map

Did you know there’s a secret detail about One Eyed Willy’s treasure map in “The Goonies,” according to Express.co.uk? Production designer Michael Riva handmade the map, but he wanted it to look old and tattered. But how?

To achieve this effect, the story goes that he holed up in a hotel room for a day pouring coffee on the map and smudging it. Then he got a brainstorm that it should be splattered with blood, but he had no red paint on hand. What to do?

“So we actually had to cut our fingers and edge the sides of it with blood,” he explained. “You do these crazy things. You get so into it.” Director Richard Donner was impressed. “Imagine that inspiration and that creative push so early in life,” he marveled.

So what happened to the map? In 2015, Sean Astin, who played Mikey in “The Goonies,” said he saved the original treasure map, and kept it in his room, MysteriousWritings.com reports.

But when he was off filming another movie, his mother, actress Patty Duke, sold the house, and the map went missing during the move … or, he speculated, perhaps his mother accidentally threw it away.

Astin noted that if the map is out there somewhere, it might be worth $100,000. Imagine that.