Forrest Fenn alleges that he hid a chest full of treasure in the mountains of New Mexico ten years ago, and gave out clues for people to find it. At least 5 people have died in the heat and the remote mountains, and thousands of people have searched for it.
He now claims that it has been found. But there are lawsuits already being filed.
There goes my retirement plan!
I’ve been following this for awhile now, and I’ll be interested to see how this shakes out. Thanks for posting.
Reading that article and its comments, man, there are a lot of butthurt people who didn’t find it!
I have never heard of this, but what a fascinating story! I need to read more about this.
Far more people than that have died searching for hidden treasures. This guy is no more responsible for any of those deaths than Darwin is.
Many people have speculated over the last decade that it’s a hoax, and there is no treasure.
That could still be true.
I find it very convenient that the person who discovered it has chosen to remain anonymous.
Unless I see evidence that the treasure was real, and that someone has found it, I am going to assume this was a hoax and he simply wanted this thing to end. Perhaps he felt guilt over the people who have died looking for it, and/or is fearful of lawsuits.
I’m not buying this ever existed either until I see some real evidence. But if it does exist, please tell me it was buried under a big W.
And now Fenn has died.
And now the person who claims to have found the treasure has come forward.
That is ofneof those missed opportunities that make me wonder if my chances of finding it would have been better, If I had started looking for it.
As I read the Jack Stuef’s comment in the @telemark link that he:
…put it in a vault at a “secure location” in New Mexico. “It will remain there until I sell it,” he said.
I’m not sure if this is a dumb question: isn’t he required to pay US federal or state income taxes on the money?
Update: looks like someone is upset
Yeah, he claims that he found out where it was at, then it was moved.
I don’t have it handy but there was a long writeup on Fenn around the time he died that suggest he had a fairly long history of morally questionable behavior, which I think lends some credence to the idea the “treasure hunt” may have never been entirely on the up and up.
Outside Magazine did a feature on the guy who found the treasure back in December.
The guy who wrote the article has also written a book which Outside has excepted.
There’s a podcast for it as well.