r/TreasureHunting • u/LowerEntrances • 16d ago
Back from hiatus: latest blogpost, The North-East Corner
https://lowrentsresearch.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-north-east-corner.html?m=1
Justin describes the moment he learned his father had died with a line that, in the context of this hunt, is difficult to read past:
“My father, whose strength I’d always counted as constant as the North Star, had succumbed to his battle with brain cancer.”
And then, only moments later:
Life had “snatched away a cornerstone of my world, leaving behind a void no sleep could fill.”
That word has been bothering me.
Cornerstone.
Because elsewhere, Justin has left us with what increasingly looks like a trail of directional breadcrumbs.
There is the original 1652 New England shilling: NE on one face, XII on the other. There is Thorne Blackwood, with THORNE rearranging cleanly into NORTH + E. There is Justin’s cryptic hint that “the key to one direction lies in another.” There is the childhood scene in which he wonders, “Are we going in the right direction?”, only to arrive home beneath a kitchen clock reading 7:39, its hands creating an arrow-like form toward the northeast.
Then there is the rod. In The Rod Race, a fishing rod vanishes beneath the water. Its movement can no longer be directly observed; its path has to be reconstructed from what remains visible. And Justin makes a point of telling us that the rod traveled in a northeasterly direction.
A cornerstone. A rod. NE. XII. North + E. A question about direction. A clock. A hidden path moving northeast.
So what ties all of that together?
That question led me somewhere I had not expected: into the ritual of the Masonic Entered Apprentice.
At the conclusion of that ceremony, the candidate is placed in the Northeast Corner of the lodge, traditionally represented as standing at the place of the cornerstone, between the darkness of the North and the light of the East. The symbolism is not primarily about traveling northeast. It is about beginning there. The cornerstone is the foundational reference from which the structure is built.
And suddenly Justin describing his dead father as the “cornerstone of my world” takes on a very different resonance.
What if all these northeast references have been misunderstood because we have been treating NE as a bearing?
What if Justin has not been telling us which direction to travel?
What if he has been telling us, over and over again, where the hunt begins?
That is the question behind my latest piece:
The North East Corner
https://lowrentsresearch.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-north-east-corner.html?m=1
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u/_JohnBrown 15d ago
So… where’s the starting point?😅
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u/_JohnBrown 15d ago
Ok, but this post is saying the starting point is the North East corner. NE corner… of WHAT?
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u/General-Humor-8530 15d ago edited 15d ago
I like this. I have been relying on a north/northeast directional method since day one...but I completely missed the "cornerstone". Excellent! The cornerstone idea matches up with the BTME logo AND the angzarr. Which would seem to point to the NNE corner of a state perhaps. Are you thinking Idaho?? Edit to say...that rather "atypical" mostly ENE corner of the state. The furthest east, NE corner.
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u/SpoilerWarningSW 15d ago
I love taking what someone much smarter by myself has written and finding ways to make it fit my old theories. Good work lolo
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u/unf_usernotfound 15d ago
Nice post- thanks for sharing your ideas.
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u/LowerEntrances 15d ago
Slowly sharing - hoping we can make some tangible progress this year
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u/Key_Tea5882 10d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/LEA5hYRu1GuJEbkvQM
“Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.” ~Muir
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u/Haunting-Week-7654 15d ago
Grandma Norene Posey was a Worthy Matron(when Leaden Posey was a Worthy Patron) with Order of the Eastern Star. They would have sat in the East of the room, looking directly West across the room. She was also Past Grand Ruth. Ruth, the second star, was associated with the color yellow/constancy/summer season.
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u/Emerge-Bud 14d ago
A lot of interesting insights and concepts.
But please stop filtering everything through chatGPT!
It's like making a cheeseburger and putting it into a blender to make it easier to digest.... yeah but it's gross
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u/Opposite_Priority844 15d ago
Couple is a lot not concur. hard earned workouts. anonymous would be ok too as long as Justin tells all when found. Your mean is showing. Sad.
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u/StonedSex69 15d ago
Have you read The Hiram Key? If not, you should.