Treasure hunter finds chest with $1 million in gold and jewels hidden in the Rocky Mountains
Treasure hunter finds chest with $1 million in gold and jewels hidden in the Rocky Mountains
A hidden treasure chest filled with more than $1 million in gold and jewels has been found in the Rocky Mountains after a decade long search. Art and antiquities collector Forrest Fenn claims he hid the stash and says a treasure hunter located the chest a few days ago. He posted clues to the treasure’s location online and in a poem published in his 2010 autobiography, “The Thrill of the Chase.”
Well played!
If you are still curious, I wrote a fun tale, that Forrest loves and helped me edit and gave some tidbits. “ The Chroma,” by Ansley Ray
The mystery remains.
Straight outta uncharted
United States – “Oh how awesome! You found $1 million worth of treasure huh?”
Also United States – “That’ll be 45% for taxes please.”
A journalist expecting demonstrable evidence that a story is true and his colleagues giving him a hard time about it…
I’m not one to cry fake news at every opportunity, but this kind of behavior can give those folks ammunition.
It’s all well and good to want to feel good about a story like this, but the journalists still need to properly establish and check facts first.
Maybe they did, and this interchange was in jest, but the appearance would be poor even then.
They finally found it the legends were true
The gold treasure hunt continues!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgVrRNWC0kQ
holy crap they actually found it
I wish for that
Maybe.
About the Vallecitos Mountain Retreat, that "special place in the forest north of Santa Fe": Here is a quote from an article in the New Mexico Magazine in 2015 by Don J Usner: ". . . . .While Mudd was writing and working at the ranch [now the Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center] and running his environmental organization. he met the man who would ultimately transform the ranch into a retreat center. Mudd recalls that Grove Burnett, a newly minted environmental lawyer, simply walked into his office in 1971 and offered to help Mudd’s organization. Mudd hired him, and Burnett, along with his wife at the time, Linda Velarde, began to spend time at the ranch with their two children. It became a haven for both families. – – – – – When in 1992, Mudd found himself in financial difficulties, he sold the ranch to Burnett and Velarde and TWO FRIENDS (philanthropists who wanted to REMAIN ANONYMOUS), who created a nonprofit corporation, assembled a board of directors, and set out to realize their vision for the property. – – – – – "We were clear from the beginning that we wanted to make a refuge and retreat center for meditation", says Burnett, the founding teacher at the Vallecitos Mountain Retreat, as it was initially called. "Basically, we wanted to make it a refuge for people, too.." – – – – Burnett says that as the board began to formulate a plan, they kept coming back to the words of Henry David Thoreau, who in 1854 wrote, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." – – – – "Those words were the cornerstone of our philosophy", Burnett says. "We wanted to create a sanctuary for people to take refuge. It was as simple as that. That was our guiding principle, and it has remained so for the last 25 years." – – – – In 1994 the first retreat, for environmental leaders from around the country, was led by the renowned mediation teacher, Joseph Goldstein, who was also on the founding board of directors. It was Goldstein who recommended that the board steer clear of making Vallecitos a Buddhist center. They heeded his counsel, and the refuge remains rooted in teaching dharma mediation– but as secular, mindfulness training." https://www.vallecitos.org/ – – – – –
too bad they’ll lose half of it to the government in taxes
No proof no find
This man actually found the One Piece!
Now the government will want their share like they were outside with you helping you dig.
*This is 100% a hoax. There was never any treasure whatsoever. Forrest Fen is an author and art dealer. He used the treasure hunt as promotion to sell his memoir, at the time – The Thrill of the Hunt.*
*He was earlier diagnosed with cancer. Not knowing how long he had to live – and probably not being quite content with his career as an author – he came up with this hoax, in hopes that his name will forever be linked with other great authors, and spoke about forever.*
*Unfortunately, 5 people died while in search for this fake treasure – and through the years, his replies to those deaths, have been non-regretful and very, "Oh well, what can I say…the Rocky Mountains are tough terrain."*
*That’s why there isn’t even an actual photo of the found treasure – it doesn’t exist. The man who claims to have found it, doesn’t need to reveal his identity. But, why not release an actual photo of the so called treasure, to prove it?*
*The answer is, because the treasure never existed. Forrest Fen is just an attention seeking person, wanting to be a famous author.*
*The families of the deceased – should file a complaint with the authorities, so they can question Forrest and the person who claimed to have found the treasure. So, it can be determined if it was a hoax or not.*
*If this was a hoax – Forrest Fen would have some level of culpability, for intentionally fabricating a scenario, that he knew would place human lives in danger.*
And who will still this treasure from the people..
Government officials
I was the one who found it. I am reburying some of it with a new riddle
It was on Discovery channel’s Expedition Unkown
I am Mr. Frank Wilfred I really want to establish a true relationship that may lead into a business partnership with you
Sir/Ma. I am in possession of 95kg of alluvial lengo 22carat gold and 6kg diamonds of 28,440carats in a metalic box as a family vales deposited with a security company.
I therefore decided to post it here in search of a trust worthy successful businessman for an urgent business.
Above all be rest assured that every process involved will be very transparent.
you can contact me on
+19403209158
https://youtu.be/cX1XzwpxLi8
After taxes a couple thousand bucks
The person who found it did it by my solve, that’s why the finder doesn’t want to know where it was found.
Look at this and tell me I’m wrong. https://youtu.be/DLjCwvPQsbY
He goes through inside to find treasure finds a million in jewels . Meanwhile you go outside in FL and catch Corona . DAMMMMMMMMIT
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-treasure-chest-rocky-mountains-forrest-fenn-20200608-xltbeao5zvbkjiby732x73fhxe-story.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaxM6zXggoE
Treasure worth = $1 Million
IRS: It’s free real estate! *Takes 750k*
I literally just watched a story about this yesterday!!! 😱
Yes congrats, but I would not have said a word. TAXES!
Now they just need to find The Oak Island treasure
Walked right passed it
Now that Forrest has passed, his "special place in the forest north of Santa Fe" should be revealed. If you look at the Vallecitos Mountain Retreat website at: https://www.vallecitos.org/ , and then look at the photos (select Why Vallecitos, then Photo Gallery), you will see some hints that Forrest mentioned, such as: some case bronze bells similar to the ones Forrest made and buried; 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 white rock wheel, as in "Try the wheel" as 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 (a large black painted "nn" on top of a big white boulder) where the blaze is still visible at: 36.6355, -106.2105 – – – – – – –
I am the man that found the location of where the treasure was supposed to be and e mailed him on the 6th of June with exact gps location, he then told the world someone had found it but no other info was available, I had found the location August 2018 but because nothing was there I kept looking. It was a hoax, I found every clue and hint and the secret that the numbers in ttotc actually confirmed the last 3 digits for lat/long of each hint. The last 3 digits for where the treasure was supposed to be ended with 423 and 328, His dads burial location and the number of missions he flew in Vietnam. 5 people died looking for the treasure and 350,000 spent millions looking and it was all a hoax. I do have the blaze in my possession. The treasure location where it was supposed to be was only 35 feet from where I parked and alot of people drove by it every day 40 to 50 feet from it. Pine Mountain, Wyoming
This is just like the goonies.
Its a lie!! Its always has been a lie. That’s why the person who found the chest will never be know. It will never end up in auction. Its a scam for the book. After the last death that recently happened. He felt bad and decided to report it has been found. It was all staged!! He should be charged with the all the deaths for being a fraud…
They gon make a movie outta this if it’s true
I hate it here
This thread is interesting to say the least. Especially the time it was posted on the 22nd of May. Did Fenn say it was found by somebody from the East? If so that’s weird…………… Look at posts 3,4 and 5….. http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/cache-hunting/633993-partial-solution-forrest-fenn-treasure.html
https://www.westword.com/news/forrest-fenn-treasure-discovery-a-hoax-says-ex-wife-of-search-victim-11723178
Forrest Fenn is a cultural thief who scavenges history as if he owns time itself. This hoax of a treasure hunt is a reflection of his empty soul.
The ghoul boys are not gonna be happy :(( poor Shane and Ryan
Oh nice i watched Expedition Unknowns episode just a few weeks ago about this topic!!!
Who does these TREASURES belong to?
Who says he found the imaginary treasure? The guy who says he hid the imaginary treasure and then sold books about it? Where’s the proof? How is this journalism?
Guess what, guys? I, too, have hidden a million dollar treasure. Please cover my story. I will sell books about how to find it.
None of these talking heads are near Fenn’s level of intelligence yet, as always, set themselves up as being superior & questioning. These people are not experts at anything!
i dreamt rocky.mountain a.month ago. i lived in the PHILIPPINES NEVER BEEN OUTDIDE THE.COUNTRY AND ITS WEIRD BECAUSE I WAS STANDING THERE LOOKING THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN AND IM.WITH SOMEONE.THERE. A GUY THAT I COULDNT SEE HIS FACE
My proposal to continue the treasure hunt: https://www.gofundme.com/f/215djbkpao?sharetype=teams&member=4580080&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&pc_code=ot_co_dashboard_a&rcid=896eafdb47ea49c696ecb8537a785ca3
I feel like in honor of the people who died, and closure for many people looking for this treasure, Mr. Fenn should release the location, and explain (in detail) the correlation between the clues in his poem and the location where the treasure was found. Otherwise people might be tempted to think it’s discovery is a lie and more people could potentially lose their lives searching for it. I couldn’t care less about the person who actually found it, or what they do with it.
It was found in Chaffee county I bet
Yay someone found it it’s been years bet the guy who buried it is so happy
Nice!