A hidden treasure in the American West

A hidden treasure in the American West

Thousands have joined in a real-life treasure hunt where the prize is a chest filled with gold and jewels worth possibly millions of dollars. The treasure was hidden in the Rocky Mountains by an eccentric millionaire, Forrest Fenn, who wrote a poem filled with clues. Barry Petersen meets the man behind this scramble for treasure, and some participants in the chase for a fortune.

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  1. Senor Chivo on July 10, 2023 at 2:43 pm

    If you’ve been looking for 5 years you will MEVER find the treasure! give it up! lmfao

  2. Serendipity Vibe on July 10, 2023 at 2:44 pm

    Try Artist Paint Cove. Forest mentioned "A stroke of genius", it can mean the artist’s stroke, brush stroke, waters that look like arabstract art, in a pot of water that is not hot anymore. šŸ˜‰ but be aware that things do hit up sometimes at Yellowstone, be very careful.

  3. Chuck Bodnar on July 10, 2023 at 2:47 pm

    THE BIGGEST TREASURE FENN LEFT BEHIND WAS THE LOVE OF SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING IN THE GREAT OUT DOORS. JUST BEING OUT THERE, FOLLOWING THE CLUES AND ENJOYING THE HUNT IS THE REAL TREASURE THAT EVERYONE FINDS WHEN LOOKING FOR THIS. MEL FISHER WHO FOUND THE ATOCHA TREASURE SHIP OFF KEY WEST SAID OVER AND OVER IT WAS THE HUNT THAT WAS THE BEST PART. PER FENN THE TREASURE IS OUT THERE AND WE HAVE THE CLUES. SO GO OUT AND ENJOY THE HUNT

  4. Paula Lefevre on July 10, 2023 at 2:47 pm

    At an earlier interview, he answered consistently; so when a question with low value/risk was asked his pattern was the same as when he was asked a high value/risk question. Unfortunately, I didn’t look at this video carefully enough and his normal body language pattern is broke. Timing changed, and body language changed, the gesters/eyes are the opposite from prior interviews I analyzed. So my guess, he either knows someone retrieved it or maybe he or someone he tasked recovered the box. Everyone is out there looking for something that is no longer there

  5. ILoveGodsWord413 on July 10, 2023 at 2:48 pm

    He probably did hide a treasure box but I doubt there is anything inside of it except a letter. The letter will say that the treasure is mother nature herself and that all the exploring of earth is the price that this treasure has to offer. There is not real money in there. But earth itself has all of these gems that he says is in the treasure. SO in the end he is right in one way, all of the exploring and nights in the could is itself the treasure. The hints are just the most beautiful places that he could think of.

    Also the fact that there is no actual treasure pictures or videos of him actually possessing it for the records show that it is not what we consider treasure to be but it is instead nature. That is the treasure.

  6. K 2 on July 10, 2023 at 2:49 pm

    So this guy made Millions off of the prized possessions that his ancestors committed genocide on? Well that’s something to be proud of!!

  7. Roy Long on July 10, 2023 at 2:51 pm

    Hopefully, it’s not a lie or a trick.

  8. Joe S. on July 10, 2023 at 2:52 pm

    Itā€™s just as he said in my opinion.

  9. Clancy Littleboy on July 10, 2023 at 2:52 pm

    Now that Forrest has passed on, his "special place in the forest north of Santa Fe" should be revealed. If you look at the Vallecitos Mountain Retreat website at: ā€‹https://www.vallecitos.org/ ,and look at the photos (select Why Vallecitos, then Photo Gallery) you will see some hints that Forrest mentioned, such as: some cast bronze bells similar to those that he made and hid; a photo of the Vallecitos Rio, the "water high" in the poem; and a photo of a large rainbow ("the poem leads to the end of my rainbow" from the jacket of The Thrill of the Chase), and if you open Google Maps and look at the grassy area south of the Vallecitos ranch house, you will find a large rock wheel, as in "Try the wheel" that Forrest said to one searcher: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yw1sdttynrfxcnf/2%20Vallecitos%20Mountain%20Retreat-%20Try%20the%20Wheel.jpg?dl=0 – – – – – The Google Maps coordinates for the Blaze (large black painted "nn" on top of a big white boulder) are: 36.6355, -106.2105 – – – – –

  10. Larry Park on July 10, 2023 at 2:53 pm

    what if he hid it in the 4th dimension

  11. SPARK PLUG on July 10, 2023 at 2:53 pm

    Fun ride that ended at the gallery on the island šŸ

  12. MAVERICK1 on July 10, 2023 at 2:57 pm

    Chasing the treasure was a wild ride that I never got off of. Tears and laughter. Most fun ever. I learned more about myself than anything.

  13. rrl on July 10, 2023 at 2:58 pm

    "So what’s your reason for searching?"
    "Oh uh the adventure the riddles.."
    Girl please you want the money don’t be ashamed !

  14. who dat? on July 10, 2023 at 3:01 pm

    šŸ™‚šŸ™‚šŸ™‚šŸ™‚šŸ™‚šŸ¤£šŸ¤£

  15. chaosawaits on July 10, 2023 at 3:03 pm

    I don’t doubt that he actually buried the treasure, but how do we know someone didn’t find it and keep quiet?

  16. Kushi Bechoo on July 10, 2023 at 3:04 pm

    There’s no treasure this guy fooled people

  17. La Stone on July 10, 2023 at 3:05 pm

    He said he drove there and back in one day, so you are too far north.

  18. strange world on July 10, 2023 at 3:06 pm

    It is about youthness

  19. Screaming Eagle on July 10, 2023 at 3:07 pm

    he wont tell "even" his wife. LOL LOL.. it should be "especially his wife" there are three forms of mass communication…… Telephone, Television, Telewoman

  20. Exciter on July 10, 2023 at 3:08 pm

    Hint: It’s not in Montana, last thing he wants is a Canadian to find it. So now it’s just down to 3 states.

  21. Eudaimonic_Perspective on July 10, 2023 at 3:09 pm

    6:55 Reckless "city slickers" who defect their "comfort zone" will get themselves or their children killed and blame Forrest.

  22. Treasure Finder on July 10, 2023 at 3:10 pm

    " A bronze chest" as has been described with treasures ( described) is a LIE in my opinion.
    I believe I have cracked " the codes." I have been to the locations. It appears the backers of this have BILLIONS in backing. Figure it out. The " rabbit hole" is deep and dark. A SECRET society is involved.

  23. Clancy Littleboy on July 10, 2023 at 3:13 pm

    Not enoughĀ clues were givenĀ to find "where warm waters halt" directly without first finding something else.Ā  That missing link was the method to be used:Ā  Plot the 4 map points in the poem, then draw lines between those points, thenĀ cut out the poem and use it as a map, following the directions in Stanza 2:Ā Ā  Ā https://www.dropbox.com/s/2tvvd87ec2nad47/Using-Poem-as-Map.pdf?dl=0Ā  Ā – – – – – –

  24. I made this username really long on purpose on July 10, 2023 at 3:13 pm

    It’s found 6/7/20

  25. KAM entertainment videos on July 10, 2023 at 3:14 pm

    I’m pretty certain mr fenn did really hide the treasure chest…I’m just trying to be in his shoes..we as normal 9 to 5 working people can’t fathom to do something like that…but this man…with his story…beating cancer…and what’s a few million…plus I feel he feels he owes it back somehow…giving back… from war to ancient ruins..but either way…fenn is the man in my book! Thrill of the chase~Too far to walk…genius! Got people all over the woods!

  26. yamahamers on July 10, 2023 at 3:14 pm

    ohĀ Val sure looks good. how about a key like guten tag says.

  27. Great U.S. Treasure Hunt on July 10, 2023 at 3:19 pm

    44 26, 110 42

  28. WyMustIGo on July 10, 2023 at 3:19 pm

    It was at Five Springs and Jack based his solve on known information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxF-yuVRH64

  29. iowasenator on July 10, 2023 at 3:21 pm

    This is the biggest load of crap I’ve ever heard! Think for a moment: Would any normal rational human being just throw away this large "treasure?" Would YOU? What if someone found the treasure that Fenn considered "undeserving?" Would he risk that? What if someone found it…..the mystery is over, right? His name would be out of the newspapers. He couldn’t risk that! His acquaintances said it; he loves the attention! This has generated a LARGE amount of free publicity for his book and thus added untold sums to his bank account. It’s nothing more than an ingenious marketing ploy to generate sales for his book. Fenn has said that he just wants to get people outside, away from the computer, and exploring the wilderness. I believe he said this as a backup strategy. If, he is at some point discovered to be a charlatan, he could always state that his goal all along was to promote exercise and an appreciation for nature. Its foolproof! Another note: In the poem, he says that he hid the chest where it is "too far to walk," right? Well, if this is indeed the case, how does he know that people have come so close to discovering it? Also, he stated that the treasure has YET to be found. However, how would he know that for CERTAIN? One could ONLY make this claim if there were NO treasure in the first place! The clues all point one in the direction that this whole story is nothing more than a fabrication and a ghoulish wild goose chase. Remember what your grandmother said: "If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is!"

  30. someonesomewhere on July 10, 2023 at 3:25 pm

    first of all, you so-called treasure hunters are searching with no metal detectors, second, you are not even looking in the correct spots…third, this dude is a thief. HeĀ a made a lifeĀ stealing native American artifacts and profiting from it. If anyone does findĀ the treasure it should be given to the native Americans.

  31. Ruben S. on July 10, 2023 at 3:27 pm

    Can any of you decrypt this message?

    74198 59935 06579 66607 70856
    21096 44251 37050 02205 92396
    10840 76450 13962 45983 35064
    3

  32. P.I. Becky on July 10, 2023 at 3:28 pm

    Forrest Fenn is a fake and his treasure is a HOAX! I have studied and been taught about lying and he is.

  33. Pamela Horta on July 10, 2023 at 3:29 pm

    look next to old faithful

  34. Mike Charette on July 10, 2023 at 3:30 pm

    A very smart man and funny!

  35. P.I. Becky on July 10, 2023 at 3:31 pm

    Forrest Fenn amazingly found a photo of what he say’s is the treasure box, yet this photo looks nothing like the other photo that he released in the beginning. Why didn’t he release this photo 6 years ago? Why now that there are people questioning his alleged treasure?

    In the beginning, he listed the ancient bronze box that he filled with gold nuggets (hundreds, some as large as a chicken egg), 265 gold coins (mostly American eagles and double eagles), rare coins, pre-Columbian gold animal figures, jewelry (including a Spanish 17th century gold-and-emerald ring and a bracelet with turquoise beads excavated in 1898 from Mesa Verde and gemstones ā€“ hundreds of rubies, diamonds, emeralds, and two Ceylon sapphires.

    Now he says the box contains 300-year-old gold and silver hunting case minute repeater watches that came out of the large gems, two 5ā€ round Pre-Columbian gold ā€œmirrors,ā€ the Tairona fetish necklace, and a revered turquoise row bracelet. The gold coins and nuggets were removed from their plastic containers and are now residing in the chest beside the little jar that contains his autobiography.

    So, what happened to the 265 gold coins, pre-Columbian gold animal figures, jewelry (including a Spanish 17th-century gold-and-emerald ring and the bracelet with turquoise beads?

    I have been researching boxes dated around the same period of 1150 AD, which Fenn said is the age of the box, and I have yet been able to find any that were made from Bronze. However, I will continue looking and I will even contact someone from Mesa Verde in order to learn more about the history.

  36. Mr Reviewer on July 10, 2023 at 3:33 pm

    imagine if there is no treasure and he done this all for fame… it would be heart breaking… but would be no suprise

  37. Mike Marcum on July 10, 2023 at 3:34 pm

    well i know where it is. but haveing fun watching every body else take the road to no where.

  38. tvchop on July 10, 2023 at 3:35 pm

    take plenty of bear spray for bears and Mt. lions, Water, and for the worst predator of all , other psychotic fricken men – a gun. (and know how to use them). Especially if you’re a city slicker.

  39. RaDonna Cutrer on July 10, 2023 at 3:36 pm

    I hope you find it. I wish I could go looking for it.

  40. Olena Mcquagge on July 10, 2023 at 3:37 pm

    Funny how Fenn did not even tell his wife about his plans….take a hint guys….You can not let your wife know if you find it….if you want to keep it secret.

  41. C J on July 10, 2023 at 3:39 pm

    I’m not so convinced that’s Dal, I didn’t notice any bleeps! Awesome video, thanks everyone

  42. Jeff Riles on July 10, 2023 at 3:40 pm

    Hes telling truth

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