“If I didn’t find it, I would look kind of like an idiot. “I think I got a little embarrassed by how obsessed I was with it,” Mr. Fenn’s hidden treasure in 2018 and became obsessed with recovering it. Stuef did not immediately respond to requests for comment, but he told Outside magazine in an article published on Monday that he learned of Mr. Fenn posted on the website Medium in September, in which the writer said he had found the treasure. Stuef came forward as the author of an anonymous remembrance of Mr. “We congratulate Jack on finding and retrieving the treasure chest, and we hope that this confirmation will help to dispel the conjecture, conspiratorial nonsense, and refusals to accept the truth,” Mr. Stuef’s name because of a federal court order in one of the lawsuits in which Mr. Fenn’s grandson Shiloh Forrest Old wrote on Monday that his family had been compelled to make public Mr. Fenn to stop the hunt in 2017, saying that people were putting their lives at risk. It set off a modern-day treasure hunt, one in which at least two people died trying to find the cache and prompted a New Mexico State Police chief to urge Mr. Fenn, who died in September at 90, wrote about the hidden treasure chest in a self-published memoir, “The Thrill of the Chase,” in 2010 and provided clues to the location in 24 cryptic verses of a poem. The student, Jack Stuef, 32, discovered the stash of gold nuggets, gemstones and pre-Columbian artifacts on June 6 in Wyoming, the grandson of the now-deceased antiquities dealer Forrest Fenn wrote on a website dedicated to the treasure. Email her at or submit a letter to the editor.The man who found a hidden treasure chest said to be worth about $2 million last summer in the Rocky Mountains - one that had tantalized fortune seekers for a decade, led to at least two deaths and spawned lawsuits against the art dealer who stashed it there - was identified on Monday as a medical student from Michigan. Paige Blankenbuehler is an assistant editor for High Country News. Now I feel rich in my heart.” The Thrill of the Chase: clues to finding Forrest Fenn’s treasure
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“I expected it to be full of riches or money or something, but this is so much better. Just brilliant.”īurfurdunk, too, was elated by his discovery. “It truly is a priceless collection,” Spurge-Burdock said.
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And finally, under the cracked plastic of a Neil Diamond 1970 live Gold CD was a signed copy of an unpublished manuscript by Forrest Fenn himself.
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He surveyed the inventory: Four copies, containing thousands of yellowed pages, of the 1970s issue Gold and Jewels children’s book the studio album Spirit by Jewell, 1998 a copy of the Joan Baez album Diamonds and Rust, minus the rust a single issue of the gold platinum 1942 single “Chattanooga Choo Choo” by the Glenn Miller Orchestra and a framed faded photo of Australian singer and songwriter Ruby Hunter, who died the year the treasure was hidden. Burfurdunk broke open the bolt and pried open the chest. Another crewmember handed him a small hatchet.
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“I remember running up and just shouting to Denny, ‘You know what this is, Denny? I’ll bet this is Fenn’s treasure!’ I am just blown away that it actually was,” said Bill Meelater, a CDOT supervisor, whose sharp eyes instantly caught the words “THIS IS FENN’S TREASURE,” spelled out on the trunk’s lid in faded neon colors. His fellow crewmembers crowded around the discovery.
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It was a Romanesque chest, deeply worn from many harsh winters and sealed shut by a large rusty lock. Using his pick and shovel, he freed it from the snowbank. He put his plow in park and ran toward an oddly ornate tattered trunk sticking out of the snow. Photo illustration by Luna Anna Archey/High Country News Sources: WSDOT and Shutterstockįortunately, Denny Burfurdunk, a middle-aged snowplow operator with a red ZZ Top beard, noticed something unusual as he was pushing one of the great piles of snow and debris onto the shoulder.