Decoding the clues: After 10 years, the “Fenn treasure” has finally been found ~ USA Latest Games

Dreaming of finding buried treasure? Someone just solved a ten-year treasure hunt.

Ten years ago, an antiquities dealer named Forrest Fenn buried a treasure chest filled with gold, rubies, emeralds, and diamonds somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. He hid the clues to its location in a poem that is part of his 2010 self-published memoir, The Thrill of the Chase. Over 350,000 people have tried and failed to find it over the last decade, and now one of them has finally succeeded. The man who found the treasure—a cache estimated to be worth over $1 million—sent confirmation of his discovery to Fenn with a photograph of the chest.

"It was under a canopy of stars in the lush, forested vegetation of the Rocky Mountains and had not moved from the spot where I hid it more than ten years ago," Fenn wrote on his website. "I do not know the person who found it, but the poem in my book led him to the precise spot." He told the Santa Fe New Mexican that the man who found the treasure declined to be named publicly but hailed from "back east."

Fenn claimed he set up the hunt to inspire people to explore nature by giving them a "good old-fashioned adventure." It was also a way to offer hope to those deeply affected by the Great Recession that followed the collapse of the housing market in 2008.

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