

Email her at or submit a letter to the editor. In 2020, Fenn simply announced that the treasure had been found yet gave no details about its location or its finder. Paige Blankenbuehler is an assistant editor for High Country News. Now I feel rich in my heart.” The Thrill of the Chase: clues to finding Forrest Fenn’s treasure
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“I expected it to be full of riches or money or something, but this is so much better. Just brilliant.”īurfurdunk, too, was elated by his discovery. Craythorn dug in the cemetery of the Fort Yellowstone National Historic Landmark between October 2019 and May. “It truly is a priceless collection,” Spurge-Burdock said. June 2020: Forrest Fenn treasure finally found in Rocky Mountains J02:25.
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And finally, under the cracked plastic of a Neil Diamond 1970 live Gold CD was a signed copy of an unpublished manuscript by Forrest Fenn himself. He surveyed the inventory: Four copies, containing thousands of yellowed pages, of the 1970s issue Gold and Jewels children’s book the studio album Spirit by Jewell, 1998 a copy of the Joan Baez album Diamonds and Rust, minus the rust a single issue of the gold platinum 1942 single “Chattanooga Choo Choo” by the Glenn Miller Orchestra and a framed faded photo of Australian singer and songwriter Ruby Hunter, who died the year the treasure was hidden.

Burfurdunk broke open the bolt and pried open the chest. Another crewmember handed him a small hatchet. “I remember running up and just shouting to Denny, ‘You know what this is, Denny? I’ll bet this is Fenn’s treasure!’ I am just blown away that it actually was,” said Bill Meelater, a CDOT supervisor, whose sharp eyes instantly caught the words “THIS IS FENN’S TREASURE,” spelled out on the trunk’s lid in faded neon colors. The Fenn Treasure was a cache of gold and jewels that Forrest Fenn, an art dealer and author from Santa Fe, New Mexico, hid in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. Ten years ago, an antiquities dealer named Forrest Fenn buried a treasure chest filled with gold, rubies, emeralds, and diamonds somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. His fellow crewmembers crowded around the discovery. It was a Romanesque chest, deeply worn from many harsh winters and sealed shut by a large rusty lock. Using his pick and shovel, he freed it from the snowbank. He put his plow in park and ran toward an oddly ornate tattered trunk sticking out of the snow. She’s further asked for the court to hand the ownership of the chest to her.Photo illustration by Luna Anna Archey/High Country News Sources: WSDOT and Shutterstockįortunately, Denny Burfurdunk, a middle-aged snowplow operator with a red ZZ Top beard, noticed something unusual as he was pushing one of the great piles of snow and debris onto the shoulder. The case was thrown out in February.Ī Chicago real estate attorney further told the New Mexican she’ll be filing an injunction to the federal district court, saying she solved the puzzle but was then hacked by a stranger, who used her solutions to get to the chest.īarbara Anderson intends for the injunction to prevent this unknown defendant from selling the chest’s contents. Last year, a Colorado man sued Mr Fenn for $US1.5 million, saying he laid “fraudulent statements” that prejudiced his ability to find the treasure.ĭavid Hanson claimed he followed the clues, but when he arrived where the “treasure was hidden” Mr Fenn released more clues, which led him away from the search area, allowing someone else to find the treasure. Mr Fenn’s quest has also attracted controversy and lawsuits. Despite photos surfacing of the chest and its contents, Fenn said he won’t reveal more details.

It’s been a month since Forrest Fenn announced his treasure was claimed, but the public is still not much closer to knowing the bounty’s location or finder. Fenn said the treasure was hidden in the mountains, somewhere north of Santa Fe, where he lives. 4 Best Theories on Forrest Fenn’s Treasure Location. It has been estimated more than 350,000 people have trekked through the mountains looking for the treasure – some people have said they quit their jobs to take on the challenge. “I feel halfway kind of glad, halfway kind of sad because the chase is over,” Fenn said, when asked how he felt that the hunt was finally over. He said he decided to set the challenge as a way to encourage people to explore nature, and to give hope to people following the global financial crisis. Forrest Fenn posted three photos on a blog dedicated to the search, showing the bronze chest filled with gold, jewels and other valuables worth more than 1 million. Famed art and antiquities collector Forrest Fenn, who said he hid 1m in treasure in the Rocky Mountain wilderness a decade ago, said Sunday that the chest of goods has been found. It took Fenn two trips to transport it to its hiding spot.
