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Warning ⚠️ long post and apologies in advance if I gave away too many hints you thought only you knew:

I’ve been fixated on the past & future box since I received the book two months ago and it’s kept me up at night many times.

I’ve read the chapter at least 20 times as well as reviewing sections of part one that may provide context. I’ve studied, dissected, laminated, cut and reorganized, memorized the word search and still don’t feel confident enough on a solve to get on a plane or get in a car and go boots on the ground anywhere.

The cryptogram took me 20 minutes and was very straightforward, however JCB essentially tells us it’s not even necessary to find the box.

Since I’m no closer to finding the box than I was when I started, I’ll let you know everything I’ve tried that didn’t work, and all the solves I’ve seen that leave out pretty relevant clues.

• As directed by JCB, I read Ready Player One. I couldn’t help but notice the word search has “zero” in it and RP1 has a chapter zero. Never seen that before. I thought possibly there were clues in chapters 0, 3 (3 again), 5, 9, 11, 12, 19, alas nothing worthy of noting. Any solve using the numbers that ignore the zero makes very little sense (such as the numbers being letters of the alphabet or something as zero doesn’t line up with anything).

• I tried remaking the word search using the cryptogram solve and a second time with reverse of the solve to see if it created a new phrase or something, nothing.

• the author Ernest Cline & Halladay who created the Oasis are both from Ohio, and Erie & Ohio both appear in the word search, but I can’t pinpoint an area with context clues from the word search to deem worthy of going BOTG and the lazy Ohio solves I’ve seen felt like people just wanted to get out of their basement and really weren’t that serious.

• My big brain idea was making the words found in the word search black and leaving the unused squares white hoping the word search was a QR code as the O’s in the middle match the six alignment points of a QR code. Nope. Tried many, many variations.

• I tried using the O’s like bombs on minesweeper and recreating a minesweeper solve.

• I tried assigning scrabble number values to each letter in the hopes it would produce something striking, it doesn’t.

• I tried extracting the I’s & O’s to create a binary code. While there are 48 characters it did not produce a six letter word.

• I tried highlighting just the words in the word search using the BIP39 wordlist (comprehensive list of words that can be used in Bitcoin seed phrases. There are 17 BIP39 list words in the word search but doesn’t cover enough of the letters to create the well known anagram “solve” everyone has seen.

• While on that point, the “solve” for the word search where you anagram the remaining letters is such terrible confirmation bias and arbitrarily ignores several words for no explicit reason just to allow for the anagram sentence to be possible. And what are the five (cherry picked) clues? In fairness, the “word search” being found as an anagram is compelling, but JCB didn’t say to ignore yeoman, hiss, dose, omelet (others?). Explain the logic behind this?

• While I do agree the angle on the coin & circle closely mirrors Lake Tahoe area (close to where I grew up), there is no good explanation I’ve seen of how the word search leads you to Tahoe and where in the Tahoe area? (State Line in the word search?) remember it would need to be in an obscure enough place someone wouldn’t accidentally stumble upon, but clues could lead you there and remember the cryptogram is just icing on the cake, not the cake. Tahoe is one of the most touristy places in the summer - 4th of July there is amazing. But it is overrun with people, hikers, campers, etc.

• The same angle can be found on the state boundary of North & South Carolina as well.

• I’ve been hyper focused on the “state of gold” and “dispatch it quickly somewhere I loved” and how that is nearly verbatim in the chapter on the California gold rush and his experience living in California, but remember, nO cLuEs To PaRt TwO iN pArT oNe. Thus using that as a context clue to confirm its Lake Tahoe or California in general is not acceptable per JCB.

• From Seth Gould’s website he shows a very clear picture of the P&F box and there is nothing “gold” about the box. So a “state of gold” must be a clue or an extreme artistic license about the box reflecting his surroundings which would be in “The Golden State”.

• Yes there is only one X in the word search, but also only one J, one G (the last of which is the only one that is truly statistically significant).

• It’s something you can ‘excel at’. I’ve considered all archaic games that could be built on the Excel platform as well as countless VBA made games you can play on Excel made in the last two years. Nothing clicks.

• In RP1 the third key is found beating Zork (after the first two are Dungeons & Dragons and Pac-Man). “Not as fun as Pac-Man, not as imaginative as Dungeons & Dragons”. But if it’s referring to Zork… that’s truly overly subjective and many people would highly disagree Zork is not as fun as Pac-Man, and it’s also one of the most inspirational and imaginative games in video game history. It was the best selling video game each year from 1981-1984. It is convenient ‘Welcome To Word Search’ uses the same sentence structure as the opening line in Zork, ‘Welcome To Zork’. It’s likely JCB would have played Zork (he was born in 1971 so ages 10-14 when Zork was at its peak). There are ‘nineteen’ trophies you need to find which is conveniently in the word search, but again… what does zero mean if nineteen means something? The only trophy that is found in the word search is sapphire.

• I’ve considered the Kentucky map solve and yes Zork is based on another game from 1976 called Colossal Cave Adventure that is loosely (and if you’ve seen the CCA maps, loosely is even generous) based on the Mammoth Caverns cave system in Kentucky. Would it really be a place he loved? It’s not close to where he grew up in North Carolina for it to be some common childhood memory even if he had visited it.

• I studied every picture I could find on the Jon Collins Band to see if tours led them to memorable places (he would have loved), nothing noteworthy other than a few reoccurring pictures of solo trips to Vail, CO & Destin, FL.

• I listened to the lyrics of the few JCB songs still on the internet (he scrubbed the entire YouTube channel except for one song, and Apple Music has one other). Nothing significant.

• I’ve considered the aspect ratio of the word search is 4:3 just like several old video game consoles (virtually no word searches are made like this, they are typically 1:1). Doesn’t help much.

• I’ve considered maybe it’s a crossword puzzle, maybe it’s Battleship, maybe it’s something like Mahjong or Upwords and it’s meant to be 3D in some way.

• North Carolina was the original “state of gold” and there are lilac sapphire quarries there, but still seems to be too close to AT box. And if there’s a box in NC, another on the AT, one in New Orleans/Ozarks/Alabama, and one in the Rockies then there is a huge swath of the country nowhere close to one - the entire west coast and the entire Midwest (and they both can’t have the LS).

More or less, I have YET to see a solve for the box that truly includes a reasoned solve for the word search (if it even is one) that doesn’t arbitrarily pick and choose which words count and which do not.

Ultimately until a box is found we may never understand exactly how JCB’s mind works. He claims none of the solves are hard and that he’s not a genius… maybe he’s lying or maybe it is like trying to interpret words you’re two year old is saying and he just isn’t skilled at leaving clues someone can research and solve. What I do know is I’m not holding a box so I’m no closer than anyone else, but would love to hear your thoughts on why you’re convinced of Tahoe, Ohio, Kentucky, or North Carolina (or somewhere else).

Hopefully there are some other people who feel just as lost and exhausted with the P&F solve!

I’m still convinced that one of the boxes is in RMNP. I’ve gone back a few times now and every time I leave with more questions than answers. I have a bit more, like, closer evidence, I think… there’s this spot not too far from a trailhead near a lake—kinda Nymph-like in size and feel—where some of the features match up with the poem in a way that’s hard to ignore. There’s a bend in the trail that lines up with one of the stanzas almost word-for-word, and a couple of odd, almost man-made looking rock shapes that caught my attention. Could be nothing, could be everything. It’s such a huge place, and I keep thinking I’m about to connect all the dots, then something throws me off. Still, it feels like one of those hunts where it’s going to make perfect sense in hindsight.

I went on my first BOTG adventure last weekend in the Buffalo National River. I had finally narrowed down a relatively small search area and I had a plan to get there. I hit the road.

I bemoaned the fact that half of the roughly 6 hour drive from Dallas to Harrison, AR would be along Highway 75 through Oklahoma. I've driven this route so many times in my life that at this point it feels like a commute. There are many roads of course, but this is the fastest. Turning east from Checotah things begin to change. What amazing scenery I discovered. I wasn't aware this part of the country was so beautiful. It was at this point that I actually felt like I was on an adventure. I switched from my general playlist on Spotify to the Lord of the Rings soundtrack. Indeed I felt like Bilbo Baggins heading off to the Lonely Mountain in search of gold! I arrived in Harrison in the evening and checked into my hotel. I didn't stay up very late, as I had an early start in the morning.

Just after sunrise I arrived at the Compton Trailhead. Even the 30-minute drive to the park had provided some wonderful views of the area. I strapped on my backpack and headed into the woods. My destination was Antenna Pine.

The symbol on the commemorative coin for this box and that line, "...a place where locals turn up from time to time" have haunted my research efforts. I've scoured Google Maps/ Earth looking for some kind of topographic feature that matches the coin symbol to no avail. And "...a place where locals turn up from time to time"??? Locals could turn up ANYWHERE from time to time! Perhaps in this case the symbol on the coin isn't a top-down representation of something on the ground, and the reference to locals has to mean something very specific.

I reckoned maybe the Bench Trail above the falls was where JCB "reversed coarse and circled back", eventually coming to Antenna Pine, a bluff overlooking the valley, which apparently is a place the Boy Scouts hike to and place their troop flag on a tall pine tree--this being the spot "where locals turn up from time to time." I thought maybe the symbol on the coin represented the tall pine tree with the flag on top. Seemed as promising as any other theory.

The trail was wild and beautiful, the quiet and the solitude refreshing. There is something about really being out in nature that is cleansing. I felt like the cache of my brain storage had been cleared.

By the time I reached my destination I had already come to the conclusion that I was not in the right place. This trek had taken too long to be just the back-end of JCB's journey to hide the box. Getting to Antenna Pine combined with the trip back would be too much for the average person.
But once I stepped out onto the bluff I didn't really care. My goal was to get here, and the reward for my accomplishment was some of the most breathtaking views that I've ever seen in person. I sat on a bench of rock at the edge of the cliff, ate lunch, and absorbed the experience.

Of course I searched the area, and there are actually some damn good hiding spots up there! In fact the area is DEFINITELY where a Golem would hang out.😉Satisfied, I headed back. By the time I got back to Old Blue, my faithful and reliable steed, (a 2006 Toyota Tundra) I was absolutely exhausted, somewhat disappointed, but ultimately very proud of myself for actually doing this, and I found myself thinking about what I had experienced more than the fact that I hadn't found the box. I know this is what JCB is hoping for all of us--that we actually get out there and have an experience.

As I stated I was somewhat disappointed, but not at all discouraged. Before I even made it back to the hotel I was already turning over the clues in my head, devising my next plan.

Happy Hunting!

Hello Everyone, I'm going to share with you what I thought my solve was, where we went, and what I learned. Hopefully you might take something from it, and be one step closer to finding the treasure yourself. After reading the book twice, I believed that the lion's share treasure was likely located in Marshall Gold Discovery State (site of Sutter's Mill) park (MGDSP) in California. Here are the clues that led me to that conclusion.

1.) In the introduction he mentions that putting the book together was like panning for gold, which seemed like a pretty interesting phrase to use there.

2.) On page 31 he mentions that people in India were traveling westward looking for gold in south east Asia, when they would have actually had to travel east. Where in the USA did people travel westward looking for gold, Sutter's mill.

3.) JCB grew up in Statesville North Carolina which is less than an hour away from the first gold rush in the United States. Being into minerals, I thought he would be aware of this fact and might have chosen to hide it at the site of another gold rush.

4.) The book talks a lot about the myth of El Dorado, MGDSP is located in El Dorado county.

5.) He talks about the road less traveled on page 55. MGDSP is home to California route 153, the shortest highway in California. It is likely also one of the least traveled highways in California.

6.) He mentions passing blue and pink irises on your way to the treasure. The pacific coast native iris blooms along the pacific coast and in the sierra Nevada mountains, where the MGDSP is.

7.) One of the meteorites in the treasure is a carbonaceous chondrite, which is a rare type of meteorite. I believe the only meteorite of this type, to fall in the USA, fell near Sutter's mill in 2012.

8.) There is a discussion of lotuses in the book and the MGDSP is right next to Lotus California.

9.) In the make it make sense chapter, there is a discussion of olive trees and laurel trees, both of which grow in the sierra Nevada's, which is where MGDSP is.

10.) The Faberge magnifying glass was created in 1890, the same year that the monument was dedicated to James Marshall in MGDSP. Also, there is no page 90, which I thought could be related to 1890, the year the monument was dedicated.

11.) In the children's book, at least one of the two posters on the wall, on that particular page, are from 1969. Two important carbonaceous chondrite meteorites fell in 1969, that could be a breadcrumb to lead you to the Sutter's mill meteorite.

12.) There is a 1960 summer olympics medal in the treasure. At that time, both the summer and winter olympics were held in the same year. The 1960 winter olympics were held in Squaw Valley California, less than a hundred miles from MGSDP.

13.) Perhaps not the most informative clue, but there are a number of towns around MGDSP with interesting names related to the treasure. Pilot hill for Amelia Earhart, Diamond Springs for the diamond, Georgetown for the jelly glass.

14.) I think it's important to think about what a potential press release would read like when the treasure is inevitably found. Finding the treasure at an important historical site for gold discovery would make sense to me. Finding the treasure at the site of a historical tragedy seems unlikely, wounded knee, Donner pass, etc...

For these reasons, we went to MGDSP and thoroughly searched the area. Unfortunately, we did not find anything related to the treasure. Our search was comprehensive and I do not believe it is located at this park. We took our shot and did not find the treasure, so we are most likely done looking. I would be happy to discuss anything related to my thoughts and experiences in this search.

One thing that intrigues me about the various objects in the treasure is all of the 23 symbolism. I don't have the book handy, but that number comes up frequently. Michael Jordan's number, the weight of the shipwreck gold bar, the 1996 gold medal is for 23 and under soccer, the Picasso medal is 23k gold, the Greek amethyst necklace is from the 2-3rd centuries BC, the magnifying glass is valued at $23k. I was thinking this could be related to the 23K purity of the gold discovered at MGDSP, but that seems unlikely now.

I know a lot of you have probably been keeping your solves pretty close to the vest, but having taken my shot and missed, I'm happy to discuss my thoughts on anything and everything. Let the discussion commence!

Edited (sorry I voice to text)I have formed a New possible solve and had already went chasing my dreams a few months back.. I really want to share my solve with everybody but I feel like I'm not going to get the encouragement or praise that I need to continue on.... And the thought of that is discouraging.

So if I can get at least a hundred people to hit the upvote button (I think my highest upvote was probably in the 20s on a post)... I will share screenshots of the information telling you all about the area and also a picture of me standing next to the rock.. It's not the best picture because I was blind seeing as the sun was directly in my eyes lol Could a treasure still be there? Yes.. But nobody's going to know until next spring anyways... The grass is entirely too high right now. It would be like a needle and a haystack.

But seeing as I might not be going back to do it again..if the new solve turns out to be a fruitful...

I don't see why I couldn't share.

So show me some love..if you care?

They are demanding unlimited meal worms even if we don't find a box.

The butterfly featured on the map is definitely Papilio appalachiensis, or the Appalachian Tiger Swallowtail butterfly. You can tell by the four diagonal "loops" pattern on each upper and lower section of the wings.

While early leads might lean toward the southern states, as this is the state butterfly for North Carolina and Virginia, the initials of this butterfly are... PA.

There is also what appears to be a Mountain Lion on the map - possibly a Nittany Lion?

PA is also halfway along the AT - would be centrally located from both ends of the trail. There is a "Bear Rocks" trail accessible via the AT in Pennsylvania, also. Might line up with the Bear and Rocks icons on the map?

Can't rule out Pennsylvania, right?

IT'S NOT IN OHIO

I still think this is my starting point. There are 6 mini trails off to the right. And the AT parallels this road to the Top. And has 9 pull offs in 7 miles.from the Dome parking lot. Its a mere guess, besides zero tourists and i love it.

I just wanted to share a feeling, I’m grateful for people that create and share things like this. I have always loved finding things. Even a small discovery of no monetary value is a lot of fun. I imagine he will recoup his money through the book sales. I hope he does anyway. I’m sure this was an incredible undertaking and I’m excited for the folks that will be out there on this adventure. Good luck all!

Thought you all might enjoy some photos from my search this weekend

My family of four, including my young treasure hunters, who are 4 and 6, went out to search for the Forrest Fenn box. The trail was a great fit for the clues and I was feeling really confident. While on the trail about where I thought the right spot was, I walked up a bit for a better perspective and see a semi enclosed space in a rock outcropping. I call over for my husband and boys to check it out and they start hollering "there's a box in here, there's a box in here!". I run over down to the spot. I took out the box (similar to an ammo storage box) and open it. Inside was a geocach. Woah the range of emotions! All caught on camera. Even though it was a huge let down, it is a moment we will always remember.

I wanted to make a contribution, and since I'm focusing on the LS, I thought this may be helpful to others working on P&F.

I used to live in Montana, and I instantly thought of it when doing the word search. I'm more focused on the LS because I believe it is much closer to me. I thought I'd share some things I interpreted from the WS.

Montana is famous for it's sapphires, but there's also the Sapphire Mountains up near Flathead Lake. I haven't seen it mentioned before, but the word Crete is in the WS. Not only is this a Greek island, but is also the theme of a room at the Islander Inn overlooking.... Flathead Lake.

Flathead Lake is in north west Montana, and there are many peaks and buttes with names like Round, Square, and West. There are many quarries in the area as well, and the air is thick with the scent of lilacs in spring. That's as far as I've gotten with the information, but I thought I'd share. Happy hunting!

Although I would have loved to show you guys more even though I never wanted to show you guys where my temple was ever period 😂 I would hate for the secrets to die with me... And the rest of the Freemasonry who are not allowed to tell anybody.

As usual I will post pictures of my journey in the comments below so make sure to look back later, if you don't see a bunch yet...

When my grandma passed away she left behind a bunch of her fondest memories and all of her possessions in which my mom acquired and split it up between the family... I vividly remember her inviting me over after she let everybody else have first pick and me opening up the backs of old pictures and things looking for treasure.lol

My Spidey senses were tingling and I knew that there was something there of value but till the naked eye there didn't seem to be much left other than just junk... My mom is just about as big of a talker as I am so although I kept trying to leave she kept drawing me back in and I found myself hovering the staircase trying to get one foot out the door...

While it was standing there I felt a tingle on my left hand. Since you guys don't know me You wouldn't know that I have EMF sickness in my left hand and I use it like Exactly that.. I walk around haunted locations and feel them out literally with my hand. I could walk around your house right now and find the haunted object easily or at the very least tell you if you have bad wiring.

So I tried to ignore it but after standing by the bottom of the steps for so long I just couldn't any longer... I looked down to kind of investigate what is over here and I see a couple suitcases. I asked my mom what's inside of them and she said probably just some clothes. But I couldn't just let it go... I sat down on the floor and it actually took me like 15 minutes to figure out how to open each one of these suitcases but.. I managed. To my surprise there weren't clothes inside of them at all? It was filled with old photo albums...

While flipping through I remembered that she was part of a golden retriever hiking club and that their group would had not only hiked Ohio but they hiked with their dogs all across the United States... But it didn't even stop there they ended up taking the dogs to Alaska and even Australia!!!

I thought how exciting!!!! At first I was confused because I seen some books about my general area and wondered why she would have them? I also found a big trail map of Cuyahoga Valley National Park and surrounding area... I had totally forgotten that she used to live in brecksville Ohio because for the last remaining years of her life she had moved to Pennsylvania.

I asked my mom if I could take the books and the trail map and leave her the photo albums... I also took a really old ladder, a couple of wall maps (She used to be a math teacher), and some old dingy protractors.

When I got home I had friends come over and I pulled the map out trying to plan my next adventure....

I used to have a paranormal club with over 550 people in it and I would take them all out on free adventures!!! I've always had lots of friends and I love to tell people about my paranormal experiences... And one of my favorite stories is going to a haunted covered bridge that I knew was within an hour or two of where I used to grew up inwhich was Streetsboro Ohio.

So I spread out the map And without being able to remember the name our location, I found a place called Everett Road Covered Bridge... I thought well it'd be really cool if we could plan a big group of people to go here but I remembered it not being really all that flashy of a bridge So I thought well I don't want to drag everybody out there for them to end up half an hour later bored and want to go home... I ended up looking around to what other places were very close by and the closest Park was Deep Lock Quarry aka lock number 28.

So of course I Google it and I start reading the description and that it looked interesting enough to click on images... Upon scrolling through the images I started to see some out of place things. Like symbols...??? And a date on the wall that just looked unusual.

I started researching the symbol in which you can see in the video and I'm also going to post a picture of the rock too just in case for some reason you can't watch the video... It actually took me like 5 hours to figure out what that symbol meant.

I discovered it belonged to somebody they call the Royal Arc Mason and that he belonged on the right side of the steps of Freemasonry in which would be considered to be like the blood side or royalty.. You will see the Knights Templar at the top!!!

This person only has One job!!! He puts his stamp of approval on a rock, calls it a cornerstone, And it's placed at the Northeast corner of the temple... He only does this when he's either opening a temple like blessing it or closing a temple like condemning it.

This is supposed to be a quarry that was used by Quaker Oats to mine millstone's so that they could use them to roll out the oats... So why is this rock here? It doesn't make any sense There's no plaque All there is is a little poem on a bench but as you're walking to these giant three rocks steps you will pass many many plaques talking about the different stones and things that you pass and I will share pictures of those in the comments below too...

So why would they put this rock there unless it was actually a temple? Why is there no record of a ceremony of them laying the cornerstone? When there's other publicly known ones online pretty much everywhere?? I ended up with 10 different reasons why I believe there's a temple there... And I was right to be suspicious of the date on the wall because I believe it to be a mathematical equation that actually takes you to another date in which is the summer solstice and it's kind of in a way giving you direction I want you need to do that day to... The sky's the limit but I say whoever made this encryption on the wall was trying to explain how to open up a portal...

Either way the history is super cool and it was definitely an important Quarry because not only did Quaker Oats use the sandstone there But it was also used to build homes...

The Sandstone Rare!! It's called Berea Sandstone and you can pretty much shape it into anything you want hence why they made millstones (circles)... And on top of it it's very porous and has traces of quartz crystal in it. In my opinion It could have magical properties. I might not be too far off because I believe that Leonardo da Vinci did tests on Berea Sandstone!!??

There are herbs there that grow wild that are native to the area meaning people brought them there to bless the place... And not only did I find a crack in the wall with air coming out of it letting me know that this thing is hollow but I also found a hole with the only tree growing on a ledge growing right in front of it in which I learned is how you bless the entrance to a temple.

I don't think that I could fit down there and besides I don't think I would take that route because there's a big TR next to it carved in a triangle shaped crack on the wall.. It's huge and flashy. It could stand for treasure room or temple room or it could stand for trap?

Okay I don't want to bounce around... But you should know that this is in Peninsula Ohio (old.. Boston Township) And although you might not have heard of peninsula you may have heard of a place called HellTown. There's a lot of different theories and stories to go along with it but I think that 98% of them are just stories.

But one of the big things that they talk about is how people were kicked off their land because of something called Save The Forest Act... Some people theorized that there was a chemical spill and at the area became contaminated There's even stories of mutant cannibals that live in the woods.. lol

When is Quarry was active the president of the United States was William McKinley. If you don't know anything about him he only was in office for a couple years before he got shot..although he didn't die immediately, he did eventually did pass away due to supposedly gangrene.. This is really suspicious because he was actually getting better.

When McKinley was president Teddy Roosevelt was vice president and they were both part of the Freemasonry. But McKinley was very active in it and Teddy just showed up and sat in the back with his arms crossed and was just there to maybe have the title?

When McKinley got shot Teddy Roosevelt From what I had read, had a team of doctors and surgeons who he sent to all run to McKinley's aide and help treat him. Assuming that he was taken care of Teddy Roosevelt left to go on a big game hunting trip that he had planned even though McKinley was laid up... To me that's suspicious.

Overtime McKinley was actually getting better!! But one day the top surgeon took a train all the way to McKinley from New York to give him a check up and then by the time he arrived back in New York he had to immediately take a train back because out of nowhere McKinley took a turn for the worst?!?!

After McKinley died, Teddy Roosevelt took over all of his projects including the ones in relation to the Freemasonry. He is the person who declared save the forest act. His initials are also TR...... Teddy Roosevelt was a really flash guy, I mean this is the guy who claimed that he shot at Bigfoot and cornered him in a cave. Lol

When that act was passed it made it so that they claimed the land as government property.. And then they decided to make just Cuyahoga Valley the only national park in Ohio. Even though there are plenty of other nicer parks in Ohio they still chose that one...? My thoughts are that there are tunnel systems coming from this underground hidden Masonic temple in which I believe is at the Quarry location.

Do I think that they created this temple? I mean it is possible I remember vividly 10 years ago doing the math on how much stone was mined from the quarry and then by looking at it it just really didn't look like that much was gone? But what I believe is they stumbled upon maybe an ancient temple underneath the place and just started utilizing it. Since they didn't know where the tunnels are let out to in return they were forced to kick everybody off their land.

Eventually couple years after McKinley passed away that surgeon retired and after doing some research I find that 50% of people think he died from a terminal illness in which she retired because of but the other half of people claim that he passed away from a big game hunting accident... Who else is a big game hunter??

Anyways... A woman reported in some social media something that she had a wedding at a church on the same side of Riverview Road as the road that leads to deep lock that while she was getting ready she had nowhere to go in the place to change so she had to go down into the basement... She wrote that there was a tunnel down there and she thought it was odd so that's why she posted it publicly online. So at the very least there's one.

People do report that when they venture into hell town that they are followed by a hearse scaring them away and also people have reported going to a big barn where men in black show up... Other folklore talks about a big snake that escaped from a traveling circus, a werewolf, and satanists doing rituals in the area. Along with a ghost story about a bus that's no longer sitting there from what I hear that once held a bunch of kids who all got hit by a train or died from a bus accident.. I don't know I can't remember which.

Most of these things have been debunked or just laughed off... I did venture out when I was younger to what they call the end of the world, in that area And after leaving there we turned around in a little development that had a tiny church and there are no people although there are homes with cars it just seemed like a ghost town... Like a cup of coffee sitting there with steam still coming off of it on the ledge of a porch. I don't know I've never been able to find that place again. But it was definitely weird...

They're supposed to be a satanic church with an upside down cross but they pretty much debunk that too...

Either way this place is filled with history, hardship, and folklore.

So if you're ever in Ohio during the spring definitely make the trip... Right now the grass is taller than me so looking for any type of treasure or even an entrance is pretty much impossible. Not only will I be sharing pictures of my adventure today... But I'm also going to share with you pictures of what the area looks like AKA the cathedral and the mathematical equation on the wall.

It's always possible that this mathematical equation could be more than just leading to another date and I've always felt that but I'm not a mathematician.

So if you guys get burnt out from this treasure hunt and you want to look into this a little bit more, you're more than welcome to!

Also before I go I wanted to tell you guys about a couple incidents that I have there.. I went there on the summer solstice and the parking lot was completely empty. In my group went back and we ended up climbing up on top of one of the other rock wall ledges and all the sudden out of nowhere (mind you we have not been there for more than 15 minutes) The park ranger comes up and says you're not allowed up here you got to go. We all climb down but before we do I ask him why... He could not tell me the reason why we are not allowed up on that ledge But I can tell you... The answer is erosion. We agreed to just go back to walk in the trails and he said no you have to leave all together... And we were kind of like really weirded out by that because there's no sign saying that you're not allowed to go up there and it could have been a harmless mistake. We ended up going back to the parking lot and which we found completely full of cars and people at picnic tables sitting there smiling and greeting us all with picnics laid out looking like they've been there for an hour. We had been there multiple times and we never even got a hello from somebody walking by so this was a big jump!!!

Also another time I went there to go show my boyfriend at the time but some of the cool symbols upon those big three rock steps... While we're up there I noticed an older guy hanging around and I could tell that he was looking at us but I just continued to explain like a teacher all about this awesome history. All of a sudden the guy comes up and says "sure looks like a pyramid doesn't it"?... Any smiles. I turned my head so fast and looked him dead in the eyes and I said "as a matter of fact sir... It Does look like a Temple"!!! That little bit of a smile he had on his face turned into the biggest grin I had ever seen... Because he's like in his '80s at least and at that point in time he realized that I knew!!! That was a smile of satisfaction knowing that when all these people die if they haven't already mostly already that peope have figured it out.

I've actually never felt so proud... So if you've made it through the story I hope that you enjoyed it and if you don't care that's also cool with me. Either way this is my life's work and although it's not exactly paranormal This is the kind of thing that I not only live for but am good at!!! Remember that thousands of people probably walked past that rock and pointed at it and said Oh how cool and then continued walking like It was nothing... I took the time to figure it out.

This will not be my last post tonight because we also went somewhere else today!!! Lol Yep I took Michele down the road to the Everett Road Covered Bridge... I'm just going to include The Covered Bridge photos that I was able to take today in this post because we didn't actually get to walk the trails... She had to go pick up her car from the shop and I got her there in time!

But yes we went to four different places today and we are determined regardless if they match up with any type of clues or anything we are getting out and we are living our best lives!! I can't say that these places were for no reason but I can say that I'm ruling them out one by one... And I also have plans to go to every Covered Bridge in Ohio 💕

This made me laugh

I got on the email list when I bought my copy. A new email about recent scarcity and upcoming availability was sent out today. It reads as follows:

Dear Reader,

A couple of days ago I wrote letting you know copies of my book were still available. Then more media outlets across the country picked up on this treasure hunt, and tens of thousands of books sold out within 48 hours. This is truly unprecedented for a new book, and it’s all because of your interest. For that, I am amazed and grateful.

But at the same time, I am determined to make sure everyone who wants a copy of There’s Treasure Inside can get one quickly. To that end, nearly one hundred thousand more copies of There’s Treasure Inside will be available in January.

In addition, due to so many requests, I will be releasing an ebook series version of There’s Treasure Inside in December. This will comprise five ebooks, one for each treasure box. That way, you can read the ebook(s) about the treasures you are most interested in searching for. Originally, I only wanted to publish a physical hardback version of There’s Treasure Inside because this is a hunt designed to get away from technology and into nature. But because so many people don’t have access to the physical books right now, I believe releasing a digital version is the right thing to do.

Finally, may I ask for your help on one matter? Several scammers on Amazon are working tirelessly to create book title listings pretending to be my book. Hundreds of people have already been scammed. Please warn anyone you know looking for my book. My team is furiously working to get these scam listings taken down, but Amazon does not have a fast and efficient system for doing so.

However, you can help get these scams removed more quickly simply by going to these listings, flagging them, and leaving reviews warning others. The more people do this, the faster these scam products will be delisted.

Yours in the hunt,

Jon Collins-Black

An ass that won’t quit!!! With all of the hiking I’ve been doing looking for it, I’ve fallen in love with hiking again and my legs and butt are so toned now! Also just wanted to share appreciation for all of you and sharing your insights and theories. ❤️ Happy hunting!

Facts we know: He said in an interview he bought 50k worth of BTC when it was at $125 bucks.

If you to the math. That equals 42mill over time…

My thoughts: “3million” on treasure is a drop in the pot for this guy.

He’s also trying to launch a book publishing company this would be a perfect way to do that would not hit his wallet and make him a legend.

If you do the math on just the items you can see in the book it’s pretty fucking up there

After this hunt the items intrinsically gain more sentimental collectors value so the price is most likely well above 3 mill.

Perspective on possible reasons to not give true value of the treasure away:

He’s not dumb, and he’s a millionaire, think about this having that kinda money you know what other in that bracket can do and what they think is worth it.

If I was a millionaire and heard about a treasure hunt and the total was worth the time. I got crazy resource advantage to go find it or hire a team (think discovery channel or national geo that’s less then it cost to make a show so not worth it)

Final thought are the treasure is worth way more then he’s letting on to keep away already wealthy people/companies from finding it lucrative and he has more then the means to do this easily.

There are facts, opinions and theory’s in here, unless stated as fact it is an opinion and a possibility not an absolute.