“Maybe there is a pot of gold at the end of your rainbow if you go out and look for it." "I wanted to give people hope and something to look forward to,” he said.
He put pieces of gold, jewels and other valuables in a metal box and planned to leave it for others to enjoy after he was gone.īut Fenn beat the cancer. So, he decided to have fun with some of his money. Air Force fighter pilot during the Vietnam War.Īs VOA reported last year, in 1988 doctors found cancer in Fenn’s body and told him he only had about six months to live. He wrote that he did not want his family to suffer the same as the Fenn family has with such things as death threats and home invasions.įorrest Fenn was a retired art and antique salesman. Then in another more recent article published in December on Medium, he explained why. He described finding the treasure, but not how or where. In September, he wrote an article for the website Medium. In the beginning, Jack Stuef did not want his name to be known.
This is the only detail that is publicly known about its location. Finally, in July he confirmed that the treasure was found in Wyoming. On June 6, Forrest Fenn announced that his treasure had been found, but did not say who found it or where. However, at that time his name was not made public. Stuef is a 32-year-old medical student from the state of Michigan who found the treasure back in June. Shiloh Forrest Old is a grandson of Forrest Fenn, the man who buried the treasure.Īlso, on December 7, the website Outside Magazine also published an article confirming Stuef as the finder. “We wish Jack the best of luck,” Old wrote and we hope that the searching community will treat him with the respect that he deserves.” On a website made for the treasure hunt, Shiloh Forrest Old wrote that Jonathan “Jack” Stuef found the treasure worth more than $1 million. On December 7, the family of a man who buried a treasure in the southwest part of the United States confirmed the identity of its finder. It is the stuff of childhood stories – finding buried treasure! For one man, that is now a reality.
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