The discovery marks the end of a modern-day treasure hunt unlike any in history. “I do not know the person who found it, but the poem in my book led him to the precise spot,” Fenn wrote on his website.
Neither the name of the finder nor the location of the treasure has been disclosed. According to Fenn’s website, it was found “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”. On 7 June, Fenn, a former air force fighter pilot turned art and antiquities dealer, told the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper that a man from the eastern US had recently located his treasure, which has variously been valued anywhere from $1m to $2m. Put in below the home of Brown,” reads the second stanza of Fenn’s poem that would send treasure hunters to scour five western states. “Begin it where warm waters halt / And take it in the canyon down, / Not far, but too far to walk. The only clues to the prize’s whereabouts were located in a cryptic 24-line poem written by Fenn and added to the last pages of his autobiography, The Thrill of the Chase.
I am very happy for the person who found it.”Īn eccentric New Mexico millionaire named Forrest Fenn said he hid the bronze chest in the Rockies in 2010. “First it was shock and sadness, then on Monday a mix of happiness, relief and excitement,” said Dent.
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