Traversing the wilderness in search of a buried fortune with only a 24-line poem as a map sounds like the plot of a fantasy film — but it’s a real-life adventure many people took on at the direction ...

When Santa Fe art dealer Forrest Fenn hid a treasure chest in the Rocky Mountains, it set off a phenomenon, inspiring the Netflix documentary, "Gold & Greed: The Hunt for Fenn’s Treasure." This ...

Spoiler alert: This story contains a major twist in the new Netflix series Greed & Gold: The Hunt for Fenn’s Treasure, a docuseries based on the New York Magazine story “The Great 21st-Century ...

Digging up outhouses because Forrest Fenn’s treasure poem included a hint about the “house of Brown” may be one of the most unusual solves author Daniel Barbarisi uncovered while researching his new ...

Forrest Fenn was rich, and he had a flair for the dramatic. So he announced in 2010 that he had hidden a box of "treasure," made up of gold and jewels, somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. He convinced a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author Kathleen Boland (Katy Weaver) Sometime around 1988, a wealthy art dealer named Forrest Fenn was given a terminal cancer ...

A treasure chest filled with gold and precious gems was hidden somewhere in The Rocky Mountains by an eccentric millionaire. Forrest Fenn told hundreds of thousands of hopeful hunters the loot would ...

Clearly, the movies are to blame for all of our romanticized ideas about treasure hunting. Who among us hasn't dreamt of a day when a trip up to their parents' attic ended in a search for a missing ...

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