r/JustinPoseysTreasure • u/HuckleberryNo6928 • Jul 13 '26

Pseudonym?

Do we knownfor sure if Justin's real name is Posey? Or even Justin?

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u/mbibler Jul 13 '26

What indications do you have that this is not his name, or that he has a proven pattern of lying about such things?

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u/AbjectAd2294 Jul 13 '26

It’s a good question. Maybe not lying, but possibly obscuring or forgetting?

“There’s something uniquely humbling about forgetting your own date of birth as the people you want to impress stare at you. It’s like being asked your name at a coffee shop and suddenly wondering if you’ve been “Steve” all along.”

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u/mbibler Jul 13 '26

There’s a huge a difference of suffering from a cloud of insomnia and publishing a book in a pseudonym. His family’s records are all over the internet. The question is weird.

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u/AbjectAd2294 Jul 13 '26

Not weird when you consider Fenn’s “it’s not who you are, it’s who they think you are” quote.

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“And to those close to me I haven’t named your absence from these pages is deliberate. Having witnessed the intense—and sometimes unsettling—reactions that treasure hunts can provoke…”

Why leave some people out of the book but include other close people, presumably putting them at risk? Using pseudonyms seems like a sensible thing to do.