“For Fenn hunters, the moment they heard the chest was found was akin to learning about the Kennedy assassination, or the Challenger explosion, or the 9/11 attacks,” Barbarisi wrote. Even though Fenn ...

For a decade, Forrest Fenn had lived as creator, promoter, steward, and defender of perhaps the most extraordinary treasure hunt America had ever known. He lived to see its conclusion. And then, ...

Daniel Barbarisi was in shock. After spending four years searching for a treasure chest that had allegedly been hidden in the Rocky Mountains by an enigmatic antiques dealer, he was now about to hold ...

In 2010, art dealer and former fighter pilot Forrest Fenn published a poem in his memoir hinting at the location of a hidden treasure chest filled with gold and rare artifacts. Over the next decade, ...

It’s a mystery that many thought would never be solved—including the man who started it all. For nearly a decade, a small chest full of gold coins, jewels, and other precious valuables worth between ...

Antiquities dealer and author Forrest Fenn, who gained fame after hiding a treasure chest filled with gold, jewels and other valuables that drove hundreds of thousands of people to search remote ...

Forrest Fenn’s treasure could bring out the worst in people. Few know that better than journalist and former Outside Podcast host Peter Frick-Wright, who first wrote about the late millionaire’s ...

In 2010, eccentric millionaire Forrest Fenn launched a treasure hunt when he announced that he had hidden a chest worth an estimated $1 million in the Rocky Mountains. Tens of thousands of people set ...

Digging up outhouses because Forrest Fenn’s treasure poem included a hint about the “house of Brown” may be one of the most unusual solves author Daniel Barbarisi uncovered while researching his new ...