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 ...

Kathleen Boland's "Scavengers" turns the Forrest Fenn treasure hunt into a madcap mother-daughter road trip fueled by money ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...