The statue Bill Cipher hunt

God, the Gravity Falls fandom is going damn crazy over this statue Bill Cipher ever since a seemingly real-life statue of Bill Cipher was shown at the end of the finale (Weirdmageddon 3). This is quite a long shot, but here’s my complete theory as to where the statue may be located.

Firstly, taking a look at the map of Gravity Falls shown in Tourist Trapped, I noticed a few Oregon cities/landmarks.

I found that Corvalis (actually spelled Corvallis), Medford, Mt. Hood, and La Grande drew a sort of invisible arc or half-circle around Gravity Falls, which seems to be at the center of this “circle”, if it were complete.

So I mapped it on Google Maps..

..and it looks like that in both maps, there’s a clear arc. If the arc were to be a full circle, Gravity Falls would be at the center of it. I drew a rough centerpoint in Google Maps (using WebNotes) to depict where Gravity Falls would roughly be located.

Alright, so we have a general idea of where Gravity Falls is. Now how do we find the statue, do you ask? Well, referencing the Vignere key and cipher that was found in the window of the bus from the finale:

HIDDEN DEEP WITHIN THE WOODS A BURIED TREASURE WAITS



SECRETS LOST AND STATUES FOUND BEYOND THE RUSTY GATES



The statue is definitely in the woods, the forest, or even a national park.

Hmm. There’s only three areas that could possibly be the woods/a forest/a national park inside the highlighted area “Gravity Falls” on Google Maps..

In the rough center of the arc (which is gray in this picture), we see a patch of green around and in between the yellow highlighted areas. With closer inspection, it seems that that area is very large, mountainous forest, that goes on for millions upon millions of acres.

The other two places are both national forests, one called the Malheur National Forest (which seems to be quite popular and boasts 1.7 million acres of forest), and a smaller forest called Ochoco National Forest, which is captioned “outdoor activity among peaks and pines.” And then, in the sidebar:

“Scenic area with mountains & pine forests, plus camping, fishing, hiking, rock-collecting & more.”



Pine forests.

Pines.

Hmm.

Well now I’m asking myself whether they’d let Alex Hirsch and his buddies put a giant statue of a fictional chaos demon in the middle of a national forest.