As more and more information is being released, searchers are gathering quite a few Treasure Facts on the There’s Treasure Inside treasure hunt by Jon Collins-Black.
This page will be updated as other facts become available. Here are the facts known now:
Overview of There’s Treasure Inside treasure hunt:
- 5 different treasure boxes hidden across the US
- All the clues necessary are in the book, There’s Treasure Inside by Jon Collins-Black
- Value of treasure boxes into the millions
- BOTG is required
Facts on Locations of the Hidden Treasure Boxes:
- Hidden in the US – no more than one box in any state (website)
- None on or across Private Property
- All in ‘Safe’ places
- No Digging – treasure boxes are NOT BURIED – they are hidden
- Shovel or Metal Detector not necessary
- They are outside. None in man-made structures
- JCB says don’t search when snow is on the ground
- JCB suggested doing a grid search of the believed area – check every nook and cranny
- Never need to wade through/across high water
- No special equipment needed
- Don’t need a boat
- Don’t need to wander so far off a public trail that you’re going to get lost
- If walk a direct path to where you park – none of the boxes should take more than a couple of hours to reach – and most of them a lot less
- There is no treasure hidden more than three miles from any road
- JCB mentioned – take water, search in good weather, and search with a friend – for safety
- Shouldn’t go on an adventure – if have trouble to walk a couple miles or a condition that exercise could make dangerous
- JCB mentioned kids make any excursion potentially more dangerous – so best not search with them
- Some (treasure boxes) might be gotten to more leisurely – others might be a more of a slight workout
- Jon has said: “Theoretically they could be some place where you have to pay to get in to… “
Facts on the Treasure Clues:
- Clues within the book, which once solved correctly, will take a searcher to the location of a treasure box within ‘decent proximity’ (website)
- Clues to the Lion’s Share box (largest box with treasure valued over a million) are scattered throughout the book (book)
- Inside each smaller box is a unique laminated clue to the Lion’s Share/Largest box. (although helpful – not necessary to find the LS box) (book)
- Clues to the smaller treasure boxes are within their given chapter. These chapters are The Forrest Fenn Box, The Pokémon Box, The Past and Future Box, and The Appalachian Footpath Box (book)
- Clues to the 4 smaller boxes are considered to be easier to solve than the largest box – even though there are more clues to the largest box
- NO CLUES within the postscript section of the book where JCB covers safety for the hunt
- JCB said he put at least one clue in his children’s book, Our Unbreakable Thread (six questions)
- There could be red herrings in his book
Other Facts on the Treasure Hunt:
- Book releases 11-12-24 (order)
- Searchers can find more than one box – in any order (website)
- No Proxies – ‘each box is hidden and will be found filled with treasure’ (six questions)
- JCB says he may not ultimately know when a box has been located – but left incentives to let him know (six questions)
- There are items in the treasure hunt from Forrest Fenn’s Treasure Chest
- Goal was to encourage ‘some searching’ once on the ground – however, it is possible to narrow down a ‘pretty exact location’ of the largest box with the clues solved correctly in the book – and probably one or more of the other boxes. (six questions)
Facts on The Forrest Fenn Treasure Box
- Hidden somewhere in the Rocky Mountains
- The Forrest Fenn Box contains the Olive Jar containing Forrest’s autobiography. JCB has opened it but resealed it to be part of the treasure.
- Clues to find the Forrest Fenn Treasure Box – valued comfortably in the six digits – are in a 24 lined poem – (6 stanzas -each of 4 lines)
- The poem was inspired by JCB’s experience searching in the Rocky Mountains for Fenn’s treasure chest
- The box contains Forrest Fenn’s Autobiography in the Olive Jar- that was originally in Fenn’s treasure chest At least one other item from the Forrest Fenn treasure chest is inside JCB’s Forrest Fenn Treasure Box – this could be one or all of the following: a gold nugget, gold beads, or Tairona necklace.
More on the other Forrest Fenn Items in this video
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Facts on The Appalachian Footpath Box
- Hidden somewhere along the Appalachian Trail
- A cryptic treasure map, given inside the book, There’s Treasure Inside, holds clues to the box’s location
- The box, like the other 3 smaller boxes, will hold a unique laminated clue to the Lion’s Share/Largest treasure box – valued at over a million dollars
- This treasure box contains more items featured in part 1 than any other smaller box.
- It is not known which treasure items this box will hold. They will be a complete surprise – but valued ‘comfortably’ in the six-digits.
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Facts on The Pokemon Box
- Clues to this box include a fanciful story about different Pokemon and a strange photo
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Facts on The Past and Future Box
- Clues to discover the location of this box involve a word search and cryptogram
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Facts on The Lion’s Share Box
- The Lion’s Share box is the largest box with treasure contents valued over a million.
- Clues to the Lion’s Share box are scattered throughout the book
- Inside each smaller box is a unique laminated clue to the Lion’s Share/Largest box. (although helpful – not necessary to find the LS box)
More on this box and the search for it
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