Many Stardew Valley fans will know of Leah, an artist living near Marnie's farm. They might even know of the statue that the player character receives if they've befriended her. There are many statues that players may have seen Leah work on or display throughout Stardew Valley's seasons. However, one specific statue leads to a treasure hunt that has yet to be completed by the community.
Players will receive this specific sculpture of Leah's during her sixth heart event when she shows up at the farmhouse door. The sculpture is titled "How I Feel About <Farmer's Name>" and though it may look like any other abstract creation, it's thought to be correlated with the secret locked boxes located around Pelican Town.
Stardew Valley's Locked Boxes
There are a number of boxes hidden around Pelican Town, and their locations can be revealed if players stumble upon a certain lost book, what the community has come to call the Incomprehensible Lost Book. While it initially may just look like gibberish, stringing together the first letter of each word will reveal the locations of three boxes—a brown box north of the Blacksmith, a metal box in the back of the Stardrop Saloon, and a chest in Vincent's room—and what goes into each of them.
By interacting with these boxes in a certain way, namely, putting a predetermined item inside, players will be rewarded with a statue (not one of Leah's statues) to use as decoration. Put a Duck Mayonnaise in the Saloon's box to earn the ??Pinky Lemon?? statue, a Strange Bun in Vincent's chest for ??Foroguemon??, and a Super Cucumber in the brown box to get ??HMTGF??. It's not been officially confirmed, but it's thought that the box behind JojaMart and Mayor Lewis' plant box can also be interacted with similarly.
The Shape of Leah's Statue
Moving forward from the secret boxes, the conspiracy of Leah's statue is fairly easy to grasp, though the information for it is spread out across the internet. Essentially, the statue that Leah gifts the farmer is in the shape of a loop, and when that loop is put over the top of Pelican Town—the main portion that consists of the Saloon, Pam's trailer, the Blacksmith, and so on—it crosses over the locations of those three established boxes as well as the two that haven't been confirmed to work.
The loop also crosses over other spots, such as the Clinic, George and Evelyn's, and around the Community Center area. It's thought that Harvey's clipboard may have something to do with this secret as it's interactable but doesn't show any reaction. George and Evelyn's mailbox would also make sense as it's a box so, presumably, it could take an item if programmed to. As for the Community Center, there's no specific "box" in question, but, as players know, there's plenty of empty space around the building, the playground, the fountain, and the trees out front. It's possible that there's something hiding in the areas that players haven't found yet.
It's unclear if these are related, but players can obtain the Solid Gold Lewis statue by solving Secret Note #19, and it can be placed around Pelican Town. Players can speak with the truck driver at JojaMart and give him a Rabbit's Foot in exchange for a Special Charm. And by shaking the bush behind the park next to the Community Center at noon, players will receive a giant Junimo plush, which operates very similarly to a statue. So it's possible that these are also part of the secrets laid out by Leah's loop statue, but the loop on the image shown above was poorly drawn.
Unfortunately, the evidence behind Leah's statue and how it ties into Pelican Town tapers off from there. The Stardew Valley fanbase has largely moved away from attempting to solve this mystery, if it even is one. It could just be an odd coincidence that the loop of Leah's statue happens to pass over three boxes when overlayed on the map of Pelican Town in a specific way.
Stardew Valley is out now for Mobile, PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.
Source: Reddit