Many people have quit their jobs and spent their life savings in the quest to find the buried treasure. The clues to the whereabouts of the treasure were hidden in a 24 verse poem that is included in the memoir.
The Million Dollar HighwayĪll this started when art dealer and former air force pilot, Forrest Fenn, revealed in his self-published 2010 novel, “The Thrill of the Chase”, that he had buried a lockbox full of about 2 million dollars worth of gold, gems, and artifacts. He believes the chest was buried between the towns of Silverton and Ouray in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, accessible by US 550, also known as the “Million Dollar Highway.” He also claims that burying a chest in the wild, as Fenn did, means he isn’t able to ‘give title’ as Fenn wrote in his memoir. In December 2019 a Colorado Springs resident sued Fenn for $1.5-million claiming he was deprived of the chest through fraudulent statements and misleading clues. The lawsuit was thrown out, but the man is now petitioning to get the case reopened.Īnother man, from Arizona, has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court claiming that he was the one that ‘solved the quest’ first. He followed and cheated me to get the chest.”Īndersen’s is not the only lawsuit regarding the hidden treasure chest, either. Andersen will be representing herself and is seeking to prevent the man from selling the contents of the chest, and requesting that the chest be handed over to her. Barbara Andersen, a Chicago real estate attorney, said she is filing an injunction in federal District Court alleging she solved the puzzle first but was anonymously ‘hacked’ by someone else. The guy who found it, who is from ‘back east’ according to Fenn and doesn’t want the publicity, has a fight on his hands to get hold of it. – Forrest Fenn, June 6th 2020 Forrest Fenn Look for more information and photos in the coming days. I congratulate the thousands of people who participated in the search and hope they will continue to be drawn by the promise of other discoveries. I do not know the person who found it, but the poem in my book led him to the precise spot.
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 10 years ago.
Fenn announced over the weekend that one lucky person located the chest and will claim its hidden treasure for themselves. Hundreds of thousands of people have attempted to find the treasure chest hidden in the Rocky Mountains a decade ago, and at least four have lost their lives in its pursuit.