Do you know about the Forrest Fenn Hidden Treasure?
After becoming a pilot in the Air Force in the 1960s, Fenn regularly flew his plane to Pompeii to look for artifacts, of which he found plenty. Diagnosed with kidney cancer in the 1980s, Fenn decided to hide his most beloved artifacts and give everyone clues to find his treasure, which he estimates to hold up to $5 million worth of gold, jewelry, and other valuable artifacts.
"Fenn was living lavishly with his wife Peggy in Santa Fe in 1988 when he received a grim diagnosis; kidney cancer. When Fenn faced what he thought was the end of his life, he began thinking about what his legacy might be.
He purchased a 12th-century Romanesque 10 by 10-inch lockbox and secretly filled it with valuable artifacts including a copy of his autobiography. Fenn planned to haul the treasure into the mountains and die beside it, but he beat cancer and the treasure sat untouched in a vault in his home — until 2010.
22 years after receiving his cancer diagnosis, Forrest Fenn launched his treasure hunt to the world. His self-published memoir, The thrill of the Chase, contains a roadmap within a 24-stanza poem, with nine clues.
In its eight-year existence, Fenn claims that over 300,000 people have attempted to find his hidden treasure and he receives 100 emails per day from hunters attempting to solicit clues as to the treasure’s location.
No one has found the treasure, and a number deaths have been attributed to it. There are special sites for accumulating information about the clues or for ruminating on the uselessness of the chase. And then there are references to him having dementia, so the location may be lost even to him.
Two monks in the Japanese Garden at Butchart. There was a group of them on a 'school outing'.
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