Featured Questions with Justin Posey - Beyond the Map's Edge

What are the Featured Questions with Justin Posey?

Featured Questions with Justin Posey is a segment in line with a segment MW had done with Forrest Fenn. For years in Forrest Fenn’s Thrill of the Chase I had shared questions (sent in by searchers) and answered by Forrest. This so all had access – the Questions and Answers were publicly shared for all to enjoy.

While in line – as of now – Only ONE PER MONTH – and I will randomly choose a question. (submit questions to the MW Discord, MW FB Group, or PM)

The Questions are also not to be directly ‘clue related’ – but like many asked in the Forrest Fenn Chase – asked to better get to know, understand, or learn about Justin – the creator – man behind the million dollar hunt: Beyond the Map’s Edge.

Justin mentioned the following in the 2025 X Interview:

“The poem, at its core, contains everything you need in order to solve the treasure hunt. That being said, I found the best way to find treasures was to understand the man. And so I also wrote a book that has information about my background and so on that might give some people some helpful context.“

I’ll post the Question/Answer here for each month. (also note: this page/site is linked to from Justin’s website Treasure.Quest – so all involved in the hunt has access)

Featured Questions with Justin

First Featured Question – July 2026

Q: Where did you attend Space Camp as a kid? What location in Alamogordo? ~ Cassidy K.

Justin Answers: Space Camp, in my case, was not Huntsville. Huntsville has actual rockets and a gift shop the size of a regional airport, and children in matching flight suits pretending Mission Control is a realistic career path. Mine was a hill in Alamogordo, New Mexico, home to the New Mexico Museum of Space History, a name that took itself so seriously I assumed for years the museum had been sued into it. There was no simulated liftoff. There was a diorama. There was a gift shop with maybe eleven items in it, four of which were rocks. And there was a busload of ten-year-olds staring up at a Mercury capsule replica like it might, if we were patient enough, eventually take off out of sheer peer pressure.

What Alamogordo lacked in NASA funding, it made up for in unintentional honesty. This was a town whose other major claim to fame was Trinity Site — the place where they detonated the first atomic bomb up the road, now marked with a small stone obelisk and an open house exactly twice a year (or maybe once a year these days). So the message a kid absorbed, whether the museum meant to send it or not, was this: incredible things happen in empty places, usually because nobody was around to say no. I did not think about that very hard at ten. I thought about the rocks in the gift shop. But the desert has a way of telling you what it’s about whether or not you’re paying attention, and eventually, you look back and realize it told you everything.

Yes, that’s a black eye. It happened during what I’ve generously been calling a “sportsball incident,” the details of which I intend to take to my grave.

~Justin