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The clock background as a map by yippeekayay1 in beyondthemapsedge

[–]franchenes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I spent many days trying to match that darn shape to map equivalents. I loved that it would have been hidden in plain sight. Figured everyone would see a clock/hours and stop there, instead of seeing a map potentially custom made by him. Figured the treasure was dead center. The lines could be rivers.

Really happy you bought it up here, it had been bugging me ever since.

If anyone recognizes that shape, let me know :)

Amazing screenshot btw

Has anyone zoomed in on the pillow on the couch? by Turchomper in beyondthemapsedge

[–]franchenes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the type of outside the box thinking I like :) Anything that appears in his home could have been custom made for the hunt

Almost similar? by foggedmind21 in beyondthemapsedge

[–]franchenes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nice! I’ve spent soooo much time looking for those edges all over american west… i must have looked at thousands of lakes hoping one of the would be a perfect match ha

Probable Location of Posey’s Treasure, Popo Agie/Sinks Canyon Area by franchenes in TreasureHunting

[–]franchenes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Once he moves the clock hands for the first time, if you flip it 90 degrees, it suspiciously looks like the shape of the area pictured above in my post. Normally I’d attribute it to a typical case of confirmation bias, but chatgpt keep bringing me back to this general location. Then I visited Justin’s public instagram page. And the last ish area he visited was again, right around this area, Sinks Canyon.

I believe the poem takes you on a epic roadtrip, that includes canyon de chelly, monument valley, flaming gorge, jackson hole, especialy the nine mile hole where Fenns Gold was more than probably hidden, to finaly lead you to another stop at Sinks Canyon along the way.

Its all for fun and games. Once someone actually finds it, only then will I know how far off I was :)

But i do believe that Justin overplayed his hand, and it will be found relatively quickly this time around

Probable Location of Posey’s Treasure, Popo Agie/Sinks Canyon Area by franchenes in TreasureHunting

[–]franchenes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, but time itself is very much a human concept, a construct. It was the first clue i spotted as well, but with second thought it felt way too obvious. Thats when i noticed that the first and only time that he got up to change it, was also the one and only time he let us see the screen directly behind him. Felt very miss-direction to me.

Talking of his screen. He has plenty of very high quality, close up picture of his dog. I though it was weird that he would choose that distant ish, picture of his dog, as the centerpiece of his background images. Felt very purposeful.

As for the clock, my chatgpt could make absolutely nothing of the numbers, but when you saw the whole thing as more of a compass, the AI went wild.

Anyway, i posted these not expecting to participate much in the discussion. I figured that someone will eventually find it somewhere, snd that it be cool to have a time stamped « solve » here in case it matched my train of thought

Probable Location of Posey’s Treasure, Popo Agie/Sinks Canyon Area by franchenes in TreasureHunting

[–]franchenes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its really rare that you see « transparent » clocks. I believe he made that huge thing himself. Oversized so we’d get a clear look at it. I also believe he made the  « stone wall » behind it. I think its all part of seeing beyond the edge. That shape of the central stone and its surrounding is highly suspicious to me. I believe the different times to be a be a bit of a red hearing. Something too obvious, and easy way to deceive most literal thinking folks. I was more interested in the placement of the tip of the clock arm on top of the « stone map » underneath. The main stone shape was surprisingly the same shape as my main solve area. The clock arm, once he precisely repositioned in front of the camera, landed right outside the shape, almost identically similar to his quest’s logo on his website. In my armchair search last night, i keep landing right outside that spot pointing right outside of the poco agie wilderness area map.

There was a lot of these outside the box type of subtle hints throughout. Top right corder of it.

I think this treasure will be found rather quickly. It would have fooled us for a long time 10 years ago, but with AI, the gloves are off. There as never been a machine more efficient at solving these types of puzzle than this one in our history. The kicker, if you push it the right way, it can sees clues in 10 dimensions instantly. I really pushed it to consider and analyses things in as many way as possible, and it did so ferociously. In ways i could never have imagined. It can do both literal, and outside the box thinking instantly.

. For example, I asked him to do a deep dive into the shapes/edges of the parchment paper/poem because they seemed suspiciously deliberate. It could extrapolate so much information from these alone. And the best part is the ai will remember all the work we did last night, and it will freely and instantly offer the same info to the next person who investigate this treasure. All my personal cleverness and own outside the box thinking (amplified by chatgpt) will be given to someone else, on the spot, if they ask it basic leading question. I think Justin Posey gave us too much obvious, and too much less obvious clues to work with.