In 2010, art dealer and former fighter pilot Forrest Fenn published a poem in his memoir hinting at the location of a hidden treasure chest filled with gold and rare artifacts. Over the next decade, ...

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 ...

Ever wondered what was really in that 42-pound treasure chest that late antiquities dealer Forrest Fenn once buried in Wyoming’s Rocky Mountains? Wonder no more: 12 years after he sent the public on a ...

The online auction of items from Forrest Fenn’s famed treasure chest closed on Tuesday. In total, the sale generated $1,307,946. All 476 artifacts in the collection were sold, and a total of 1,643 ...

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 ...

In the summer of 2020, the decade-long Forrest Fenn treasure hunt ended in a tangled mess of conspiracy theories, wild accusations, and protracted legal proceedings. Fenn wouldn’t say who found the ...

Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic issues ...