forrest fenn the thrill of the chase poem

'That's the kind of email that I don't respond to,' he says, 'Because if you want me to give you a clue I'm not going to answer your email.'

He reads emails all day from treasure hunters imploring him for further clues. Now, six years after publication of the poem, tens of thousands of people have reportedly gone looking for Fenn's treasure, thought to be worth well over a million dollars.įenn sits at his laptop in the study of his Santa Fe manse, his blue eyes twinkling mischievously. She runs a website that sells Fenn treasure tchotchkes. Does that mean where two rivers converge? Does that mean where a hot spring pours into a river? Does that mean at the Continental Divide?' says Sacha Johnston, an avid searcher in Albuquerque. ''Where warm waters halt,' no one agrees on what that means. For further clues, you have to read the poem in his self-published book, The Thrill of the Chase. It's not in a mine, a graveyard or near a structure. Fenn has only revealed that it is hidden in the Rocky Mountains, somewhere between Santa Fe and the Canadian border at an elevation above 5,000 feet. The ornate, Romanesque box is 10-by-10 inches and weighs about 40 pounds when loaded. 'If I die tomorrow, the knowledge of that location goes in the coffin with me.' 'No one knows where that treasure chest is but me,' Fenn says. The man behind the treasure is Forrest Fenn, an 85-year-old millionaire, former Vietnam fighter pilot, self-taught archaeologist, and successful art dealer in Santa Fe, N.M. The search for this hidden treasure has become a hobby for some, an obsession for others, and for one recent searcher - a fatal pursuit.

Somewhere in the Rocky Mountains, there is a bronze chest filled with gold and precious gems.

Forrest fenn the thrill of the chase poem