To understand the excitement, just look at the pictures of the treasure: it’s a massive stash of gold coins, jewels and nuggets, with everything tossed in wily-nilly like the booty of a careless pirate. People are cleaning out their savings to buy airline tickets and metal detectors and posting theories all over the internet.
Ever since, thousands of adventurers have been scouring the Rocky Mountains with the book in one hand and a shovel in the other. Part of the actual treasure, (photo taken by Forrest before it was hidden.)įorrest’s memoir, titled The Thrill of the Chase, was published in 2010 and word soon got out about it containing clues. All you had to do was decode each cryptic stanza and navigate the wild backcountry for instant wealth and a story fit for Indiana Jones. He had published a memoir of his life with a poem containing clues that–if followed precisely–would lead straight to it.
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Some eccentric old man named Forrest Fenn had hidden a box full of gold “somewhere in the mountains north of Sante Fe” and was daring people to go search for it. My brother Andy and I found out about the treasure the way most people did it was one of those daily news items that everyone shares the next day.