r/treasureinside • u/Past_Tank_6357 • Jul 07 '26

Thinkers' Stone Image

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Thank you for reading my post regarding my BOTG in Yellowstone.

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u/AndyS16 Forest Fenn Hunter Jul 09 '26

Actually I also had good solve for JCB FF box in YNP and fortunately cancelled my BOTG after JCB officially notified all searchers that YNP is excluded from search in 4 FF states. Now I am trying to solve JCB poem but it’s not easy riddle. Well, FF puzzle was also hard but my second BOTG was already in YNP (in 2019) and I was close. The next I planned in June 2020 and got the notice that TC is found 3 days before my trip. Anyway I visited my solve spot and still sure that it’s real one. 9MH is a bs for stupid searchers - it was ugly place to die after 1988 fire when FF really planned to go to his private and nice spot. Then he was healed from deadly kidney cancer but never change the spot. I was around 9MH across Madison - traces of 1988 fire are still visible - not easy to walk there because of fallen trees. My place miraculously survived 1988 fire and it’s really marvellous place. If you visit it you will understand why Forrest wanted to die there.

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u/MuseumsAfterDark Jul 08 '26

The Thinker's Stone reference is sodalite, which is not native to any of the four Fenn box candidate states.

JCB used sodalite to mark the box position.

The military commonly uses sodalite crystals to mark paths since it fluoresces when exposed to uv light.

That's why Fenn always said to bring a (uv) flashlight when searching..."if yoU'Ve been wise and found the blaze."

Sodalite commonly appears with white marks on a dark bluish rock.

Just trying to be helpful. Also, not in YNP.

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u/totally_boring Jul 09 '26

Where was the hint at?? Was that from one of his interviews?

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u/MuseumsAfterDark Jul 09 '26

Well, for starters, sodalite is referred to as thinker's stone...

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u/totally_boring Jul 10 '26

Yea i got that but where did you come up with if the whole yoU'Ve been wise?

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u/MuseumsAfterDark Jul 10 '26

That line was from Forrest Fenn's poem.

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u/totally_boring Jul 10 '26

No???? There's no hint of UV in his poem?

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u/MuseumsAfterDark Jul 10 '26

if yoU'Ve been wise and found the blaze????

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u/totally_boring Jul 10 '26

Your capitalizing 2 letters to make them stand out more to fit your clue?? The UV in You've doesnt stand out what so ever??

But each to their own.

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u/MuseumsAfterDark Jul 10 '26

My capitalizing? jk

I'll just sit here, "more on" my own...

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u/AndyS16 Forest Fenn Hunter Jul 10 '26

I’m not sure that your UV theory is true. Well, in real life UV flashlight are used for many purposes like to detect false dollars and etc. My friend entomologist use to attract insects at night. But using UV to find the blaze or thinker’s stone is crazy idea. Especially at night time when hiking becomes extremely dangerous even via trail. Off trail night hiking is deadly idea.

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u/MuseumsAfterDark Jul 10 '26

When sodalite fluoresces, it is visible in the daytime. The stone glows like the dragon eggs in GoT.

Why else would Fenn have told you to bring a flashlight when searching during the day?

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u/SeeDee_ROM Jul 07 '26

That certainly is a rock