Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A treasure chest filled with gold and precious gems was hidden somewhere in The Rocky Mountains by an eccentric millionaire.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For most of us, real life isn’t like the movies, but for at least 300,000 people it was. You might remember the story of when Santa Fe art dealer Forrest Fenn said he hid a ...

The hunt for Forrest Fenn’s treasure in the Rocky Mountains brought out the best and worst of humanity: adventure and barbarism, kinship and crime. It ended with death and lives changed for the better ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But all I knew that day was that I was worried about breaking an ankle, or worse, as I trekked through the vast wilderness of ...

In the summer of 2021, the filmmaker Sara Joe Wolansky found herself knee-deep in thick, dark mud. “It might not have been actual quicksand,” she told me, “but it definitely had a quicksand feel.” ...

Traversing the wilderness in search of a buried fortune with only a 24-line poem as a map sounds like the plot of a fantasy film — but it's a real-life adventure many people took on at the direction ...

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 ...

A treasure chest filled with gold and precious gems was hidden somewhere in The Rocky Mountains by an eccentric millionaire. Forrest Fenn told hundreds of thousands of hopeful hunters the loot would ...