Anonymous Sleuth Finally Finds £788,000 Treasure Chest Hidden by Antiques Dealer

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Anonymous Sleuth Finally Finds £788,000 Treasure Chest Hidden by Antiques Dealer

https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/06/anonymous-sleuth-finally-finds-788000-treasure-chest-hidden-by-antiques-dealer-report/

At least five people have died trying to find it, but the hunt appears to be over. Forrest Fenn, an 89-year-old art and antiques dealer in the US state of New Mexico, announced that someone finally found the $1 million (£788,000) treasure chest he hid in the Rocky Mountains roughly a decade ago.

"The guy who found it does not want his name mentioned. He's from back East," Fenn, pictured above, told the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper over the weekend, apparently speaking like an old-timey character in a John Ford western.

Fenn told the New Mexican that the unnamed treasure hunter sent him a photo that proved he had indeed found the collection of goods, but Fenn declined to show the photo to the newspaper.

Fenn first announced in 2010 that he had hidden an estimated $1-2 million worth of antiques, gold nuggets, and ancient artefacts in a box when he published his self-published memoir, The Thrill of the Chase. Fenn has only said that his treasure was in the Rocky Mountains, north of New Mexico and south of Canada, and somewhere above 500 feet elevation.