🚨SITREP: Where the Hunt Stands for Jon Collins-Black’s Buried Treasures
Recon Update • Grid Ref: [There's Treasure Inside]
Tag: #boxtracker #signal #case-files
“Five boxes. Millions in value. A nation-sized puzzle hidden in plain sight.”
This isn’t a story. It’s a status report. The Jon Collins-Black treasure hunt—launched under the cryptic banner There’s Treasure Inside—has quietly evolved into one of the most complex, crowd-decoded mystery hunts in recent memory. Forget TV shows. Forget TikTok detectives. This one’s being unraveled the old-fashioned way: trail by trail, clue by clue, state by state.
Here’s the current operational grid. These are the known sectors of interest, compiled from cross-referenced online chatter, Reddit dive teams, and pattern-recognition scans.
📍 North Carolina – Past & Future Box Theories
Status: Active Theories (3+ Collaborators)
Location Indicators:
Grandfather Mountain. Linville Gorge. “Balds.”
Linguistic decoding: “Where beauty sheens” traced to scenic overlook tags.
Historical layers: NASCAR, gold trails, and “Grandfather’s pastime.”
Likelihood: 🔶 Medium-High
Next Move: Confirm Grandfather Mountain clue cluster. Scrub Linville aerials.
📍 Tennessee – Appalachian Footpath Box
Status: Recon Attempt Made
Key Location: Alum Cave Bluffs Trail > Mount Le Conte
Decoded Clues:
“BALD” keyword matches Heath Bald above Inspiration Point.
“1727” interpreted in feet/miles/inches → Elevation + trail math.
Compass rose inversion confirmed by map orientation analysis.
Intel Note: One of the strongest field theories to date. Covered but unresolved.
Likelihood: 🔴 High
Next Move: Revisit NE vector off-trail using LIDAR overlay. Puzzle-box concealment logic confirmed.
📍 Colorado – Forrest Fenn Box Candidate
Status: Theorized Fallback Zone
Leads:
JCB conducted a five-week solo search here before creating his own hunt.
Book contains a 24-line poem echoing Fenn’s original cryptic tone.
Speculative Targets:
Leadville
Rocky Mountain National Park
Likelihood: 🟡 Medium
Next Move: Cross-check poem references with JCB’s documented movements.
📍 Montana – Fenn Box Spillover Theories
Status: Clustered Speculation
Justification:
Multiple Redditors flagged this state due to Yellowstone-based Fenn overlays.
Same poem fragment possibly applies here.
Likelihood: 🟡 Medium
Next Move: Narrow down which poem lines support Montana over Colorado.
📍 New Mexico – Legacy Echo of Fenn Hunt
Status: Legacy Theory with Low Confirmation
Relevance:
Strong Fenn hunt history here, possible misdirection by JCB.
No solid JCB references confirmed in book excerpts.
Likelihood: ⚪ Low
Next Move: Deprioritize unless poem confirms regional references.
📍 Louisiana – Pokémon Box Theory
Status: Community Cross-Talk
Theory Based On:
JCB’s mention of Pokémon Go obsession in 2016.
“Oasis” + “Sheen” combo possibly pointing to bayou zone.
New Orleans speculation based on “historical oddities.”
Likelihood: 🟡 Medium
Next Move: Scrub Pokémon Go launch sites + historical walkways in NOLA.
📍 Ohio – Possible Past & Future Box Echo
Status: Fringe Echo Theory
Tied To:
“Past” = Childhood? “Future” = Crypto success? Some tie this to Ohio.
No location confirmation yet.
Likelihood: ⚪ Low
Next Move: Defer until state is backed by two or more parallel theories.
📈 Observation Deck: What's Missing
No confirmed Alaska theories... yet. Ironically.
California and New York are absent from chatter—possible intentional blackout by JCB.
Only two actual field attempts have surfaced (Tennessee + possibly NC).
💪 Final Assessment
The treasure race is active, but slow. The average participant is staring at a riddle in a book. The real hunters are already charting trailheads, matching compass errors, and plotting Balds from satellite view.
Only a few are thinking like a strategist.
Even fewer are moving like one.
This is a long game. Five boxes. Five zones. Possibly five years.
But someone’s going to crack it early. And if they do... it won’t be by accident.
If you're in the shadows, stay there.
But if you're in the race, make it count.
🚀 — Link Whisperer OpsGrid
🚀 — Link Whisperer OpsGrid
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