My wife just told me about this guy who allegedly hid a treasure chest containing over a million dollars worth of artifacts. She said it would be fun to take a look for it if we are traveling in the area. I guess he hid it a number of years ago and no one has found it. What does the Sigforum brain think of it?

Real? Fake? Any of you guys go looking for it?

I linked the wiki page if you haven’t heard of it.

Wiki page

Be careful...seems like someone is getting killed every once and awhile looking for it.

Josh Gates on the Travel Channel did an episode on it.
He did not find it.

It’s real.

My dad used to be very interested in it and kept detailed maps and notes of areas he’d explored. I’m not sure he was really all that interested in the value of the treasure as much as he just liked taking me out exploring. We never came close to dying or anything like that. I was always under the impression that it was somewhere a 50+ year old guy could carry it within a few hours of his car or boat, not in the bottom of a spot canyon or anything like that.

WonderHussy, YouTube personality (yep I know) did a story on it.

Who knows if it's legitimate or a hoax.

Go look for it the scenery and fun, don't even count on finding anything.

then there is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...tchman%27s_Gold_Mine

and
https://unsolved.com/gallery/dutch-schultz-treasure/

Many have looked.

A good friend of mine lost his cousin last year to drowning in the Rio Grande. If you have to go wading through the river, and need to anchor yourself off, make sure to buy some good rope. Do not buy the cheap poly rope from Walmart (my friends cousin did this, it snapped, and he drowned).

If you go looking, be careful. Good luck!

Look, looking for buried treasure is how you awaken the dead. The mummy's curse yo. But on a serious note, that sounds fun as hell, and when mine are able, I'd love to take them on something like these.

Looks like someone found it.

https://news.yahoo.com/forrest...rocky-185842140.html

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Originally posted by TXJIM:
Looks like someone found it.

https://news.yahoo.com/forrest...rocky-185842140.html

I read articles on the treasure, watched an interview with Fenn, and read the clues...but didn't have the first inkling of where to even begin to search.

As a kid growing up just outside a tiny Western town, the local radio station ran a contest in which they had hidden a $100 bill somewhere in town in a "golden Easter egg", although I don't believe the actual egg was real gold. Every once in a while they would broadcast a clue, and my friends and I would share them and try to figure out where the 'treasure' was hidden. I remember working with my Dad outside in the yard one afternoon, and he had an old radio plugged into the barn, and I would stop and listen to the clues and babble on about where the treasure might be and try to get him to take me to town so that we could go search for it.

I'm glad someone stuck with the search long enough to survive and find the Fenn treasure.

I think we need more adventurers and that Fenn did us a favor in stirring up imaginations. I hope, if able, that Fenn will hide another treasure...or that perhaps another entrepreneurial adventurer will follow his lead and hide another treasure.

Bumping this old thread with a 2022 update.

I haven't gambled or played the lottery in a couple decades or more...but adventures like this one still inspire the boy in me...the stuff dreams are made of.

[Note: multiple hyperlinks found at linked website article.]

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Heritage Auctions Opens Forrest Fenn’s Treasure Chest to Collectors

This December event features almost 500 gold pieces and coins and jewelry from the world’s most famous hidden treasure

Press Release - November 14, 2022



DALLAS, Texas (Nov. 14, 2022) — This time, at least, the hunt for Forrest Fenn's treasure won't be so challenging. What remains from that famed chest hidden in the Rocky Mountains — for a decade, the stuff of dreams and countless news stories — is now available with the simple click of a button.

On Friday Heritage Auctions opened bidding on Forrest Fenn's Treasure, which closes Dec. 12. The thrill of the chase is prolonged another month as collectors once again vie for 476 gold pieces, coins, jewelry and other items found in the chest that was planted in 2010 by the author, decorated fighter pilot and art dealer. Fenn, a native of Temple, Texas, saw the treasure hunt as a fitting farewell to a life well lived — and, he said, as a way to encourage people "to get off their couches."

Before and even after the chest's discovery in 2020 by Jack Stuef, Fenn's story became a nearly mythic tale that began with a simple poem in his memoir The Thrill of the Chase, which contained nine clues to the chest's whereabouts. It began: "As I have gone alone in there/And with my treasures bold/I can keep my secret where/And hint of riches new and old." Fenn believed that after he hid the treasure in the mountains, more than 300,000 people searched for what he called his "title to the gold."

That title was officially transferred to Stuef on June 11, 2020, when the 32-year-old Michigan native and medical student met Fenn in Santa Fe, N.M. According to an affidavit signed by Karl Sommer, Fenn's attorney, "Forrest reviewed all of the contents of the Treasure Chest, confirmed it was the same chest and contents he hid in 2010, and accepted the Treasure Chest" from Stuef. At that same meeting, Sommer wrote, "Forrest gifted the Treasure Chest and its contents" to the man who found it.

In his affidavit, Stuef confirms that on Sept. 19, 2022, he sold the chest and contents to Tesouro Sagrado Holdings, LLC, which now brings the majority of Fenn's treasure to auction. The consignor has kept the chest, the dragon bracelet and a handful of other items. The remainder of the chest's contents is available in this auction.

Every piece here — from a Liberty Half Eagle to a centuries-old Columbian gold ornament to even a gold flake or a pair of scissors — will demand the attention of those who heard tell of the hunt for this fabled chest. But this auction contains its share of sizable, significant finds, too — among them a 549-gram Alaskan gold placer roughly the size of a hen's egg.

The auction contains hundreds of coins, among them a 1928 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle, Liberty Double Eagles, Liberty Half Eagles, Indian Eagles and more. Each coin in this event is graded and resides in an NGC holder noting its place in history as a selection from "Fenn's Treasure Chest."



Fenn also stashed centuries-old gold jewelry in the chest, including a Diquis/Greater Chiriqui Frog Pendant from Costa Rica or Panama, circa 700-1000 AD, and a gold pectoral meant to represent the sun, which comes from Columbia circa 200-600 AD. But not all that glitters is gold in this event: One collector will walk away with the completely intact, wax-sealed small glass jar purportedly containing at least Fenn's autobiography.

Wrote Fenn, "I also wanted to include something personal with the treasure because maybe the lucky finder would want to know a little about the foolish person who abandoned such an opulent cache. So I placed a 20,000-word autobiography in the chest. It's in a small glass jar and the lid is covered with wax to protect the contents from moisture. The printed text is so small that a magnifying glass is needed to read the words. I tried to think of everything."

Discord has arisen among seekers of the jar over the ultimate question: Should its seal be broken? Whatever the answer, its contents will be known only to the collector who decides finally to break the wax seal and open the jar.

And what he didn't think of was captured in Daniel Barbarisi's extraordinary book Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death, and Glory in America's Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt, released in paperback earlier this year. Barbarisi tells how a "curiosity" became "a full-blown craze" thanks to the Today show in 2013; how blogs led to national news stories led to documentary films led to more memoirs and a frenzy that didn't die down even after the chest was discovered in 2020. Indeed, if anything, there remains a Forrest Fenn fever unbroken by the chest's discovery in June 2020 or Fenn's death three months later at the age of 90.

The chest, he wrote on his website, "was under a canopy of stars in the lush, forested vegetation of the Rocky Mountains and had not moved from the spot where I hid it more than 10 years ago." The chase might have ended. But the thrill most certainly has not.

Heritage Auctions is the largest fine art and collectibles auction house founded in the United States, and the world's largest collectibles auctioneer. Heritage maintains offices in New York, Dallas, Beverly Hills, Chicago, Palm Beach, London, Paris, Geneva, Amsterdam and Hong Kong. Heritage also enjoys the highest Online traffic and dollar volume of any auction house on earth (source: SimilarWeb and Hiscox Report). The Internet's most popular auction-house website, HA.com, has more than 1,500,000 registered bidder-members and searchable free archives of five million past auction records with prices realized, descriptions and enlargeable photos. Reproduction rights routinely granted to media for photo credit.

For breaking stories, follow us: HA.com/Facebook and HA.com/Twitter . Link to this release or view prior press releases . Hi-Res images available: Media@ha.com

It'd be interesting to know where it was. Something more specific than "Wyoming".

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It'd be interesting to know where it was. Something more specific than "Wyoming".

The treasure was previously confirmed to have been found in Yellowstone National Park (on Dutton's ranch?? ), but no more detailed location than that.