The hunt for Forrest Fenn's $2 million hidden treasure 

UPDATE: According to Forrest Fenn, the treasure has been found! "It was under a canopy of stars in the lush, forested vegetation of the Rocky Mountains and had not moved from the spot where I hid it more than 10 years ago. I do not know the person who found it, but the poem in my book led him to the precise spot. I congratulate the thousands of people who participated in the search and hope they will continue to be drawn by the promise of other discoveries."

waiting for the moment some random person just walking through the mountains finds the chest and earning that 2 mil without even knowing a thing

The real Fenn’s treasure is discovering the beauty of nature

Update for all of y’all: the treasure was found a few days ago. The man who found it asked to remain unmanned, and the only information Fenn gave was “It was under a canopy of stars in the lush, forested vegetation of the Rocky Mountains and had not moved from the spot where I hid it more than 10 years ago”. So he really likes being cryptic.

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Hey Vox I looked for this for 4.5 months continuously in 2015. I didn't find it but I did open a tipi hotel at the north entrance to the park - found my treasure I suppose!

#1 He is a millionaire (even without the treasure). #2 He comes from a time and culture that fancies mystery. #3 This is not a hoax. #4 It might have already been found "Take the treasure and go in peace".

Firehole River - A river flowing out of Madison Lake in to the Rocky Mountains. Madison Lake is where the Brown trout was first introduced in North America. Fenn was an avid fly fisherman.

What if someone already took it and wants to remain anonymous?

Bears have taken it and invested it in bitcoin

People keep mentioning "how much can an 80 year old man do...?" A lot. An 80 year old man in a mission can do a LOT. It sounds like these hunters don't give him enough credit which is exactly why it isn't found.

Who's here after it was announced that the treasure has been found.

At least we're on the right continent, guys easy let's go

10 seconds in: “why am I watching this I know they’re not gonna find the treasure”

1 - someone already found it 2 - people are not searching meticulously, maybe it was burried or in place where it can't be seen by just walking past it 3 - since it's a poem, there's a possibility that the treasure he was talking about is the adventure and beauty of the nature

So, in the end, the treasure was the -declaration of independence- friends we made along the way and enjoying the actual treasure that is this place.

Someone probably already found it and never said anything....

Someone is going to find it by accident....someone who's not even looking for it ...just watch.

Finn wanted to encourage the spirit of adventure not of obsession.

All of those final landscape scenes -- starting around 21:00 mark -- that is the real treasure.

What happened if someone randomly found it and took it without telling anyone?

And it's like it's buried in his backyard

Have you ever thought about reading the clues backwards

I feel like I could figure this out.. With a month off from work.. And my Adderall prescription.

Uncharted 5: Fenn's Fortune

This is why i love vox and great big story, channels that focus on short form documentary are awesome. However treasure hunter noobs didnt even bring a metal detector.

Maybe he hid it in a porta potty, that would be under the brown.

It’s official! Finally found! Can’t imagine how cool that moment would have been.

it's Like short documentary

Some scrub is gonna be walking through the forest and is going to stumble across the chest on accident I'm calling it. Maybe somebody has already found it and just hasn't told anyone to keep you all guessing.

The search is over, the treasure has been found.

The treasure has been found. I just wish he would say where the treasure was.

I think what Fenn wanted people to do was to look for a treasure in a National Park and when they haven't found it, they realize that they were looking at it all along. The national park is the treasure.

How would Forrest Fenn know that someone came within 250 meters of it?

Fenn's Legacy is getting so many people to enjoy the wildlife and nature surrounding the Rocky mountains. He is having people exercising and appreciate the beauty around them. Whether he added an actual treasure chest to his legacy or not is irrelevant but the fact of the matter is that his legacy isn't the treasure itself but rather what he got people to do.

The treasure was found finally yesterday June 7 2020. Congratulations to the lucky person who found it!

What if Fenn's legacy is playing the worlds greatest practical joke?

So it takes $2 million to get people to go outside

Where's your metal detector? It's gold your looking for rt?

Step 1. Get map. Step 2. Find Santa Fe airport. Step 3. Follow the trail. Aqua Fria means “cold water” Wait... is “Canyon Rd.” at the end of Agua Fria? What a coincidence...

for me it is near and below a small waterfall. from the "no place for the meek" (you must speak up because of the waterfall sound)"no paddle up your creek, heavy loads and water high."(high and heavy water falling down)... and it is inside a cave with sun can shines over a hole at noon...god, I've been infected.

Forest gave you the answer to the poem already. 'The thrill of the chase'. The thrill was your reward, to coax you out to explore the wilderness, in a legendary man's footsteps. That's just a theory. You may disprove me below. And Btw, i'm going for that Forest figurine, selling it for a dollar after I find it.

I don’t get why no one gets the significance of the “your cold” towards the end of the poem. It’s also the only thing that links in with the final word of the poem, “gold”. “Cold” is probably one of the most essential clues, yet no one else really seems to touch on it. I just found out I put this treasure, because of this video, and that’s the main thing that I picked up from hearing the poem only once!

I like how they went to Lamar Buffalo Ranch with hella high hopes and just looked at the fence and said "yea..." , like y'all didn't even explore jump over that damn fence if u want some M's

the guy who got lost and was found dead must have found the treasure and got killed by someone else who took it and there is no treasure now.

The beginning of you piecing the clues together made sense to me. Everyone is hung up on 'Brown' being a bear or animal. I'm almost positive it isn't. Why is Brown capitalized? Also, Fenn hid it when he was 80 years old. He was able to make two trips to his car where it was parked to do so. Wherever it is, it isn't that far from a road, access road, or lot. If you need to climb a cliff or real steep terrain, you're wrong. I personally think this is much more of an intellectual exercise than a physical one. If it's out there, it will be found soon. Many people are involved and sooner or later on of their theories will be right.

As a Colorado resident and very frequent business traveler in NW Wyoming, I commend you kids for trying, but beef up your outdoor equipment, take first aid, and prepare for sudden weather problems (any season). BTW, you drove right past the box at 22:01

It has been found, go home everyone! "It was under a canopy of stars in the lush, forested vegetation of the Rocky Mountains and had not moved from the spot where I hid it more than 10 years ago" -Fenn

23:14 We didn't find the treasure.

That was the best video VOX has ever produced in my opinion that was amazing. So well thought out and executed. Well done that was better than professional!

Y’all sleeping on a 80 year old man to walk 10 miles in the mountains...

That’s cool you started a lil treasure find of your own, I think I know where you left it! I can hardly wait to go back out looking for treasures hidden

the treasure is the friends you've made along the way

this is why vox is amazing

Absolutely Brilliant... to create a treasure hunt that's getting people, family and friends outside to enjoy nature and personally witness the true beauty that is OUR country... just being there together, supporting each other, while on an adventure must be rewarding and memorable in it self truly priceless... God bless him and ALL that take up the hunt..!!

they say it was found like a week ago

Just call Nathan Drake or Lara Croft

Spoiler Alert: They did not find it.

"Everything's got to be somewhere!" There's a lot of big country out there. Enjoy. If your joy is in the treasure, you'll miss the treasures to be found in the search, and in the land.

This is the video that started it for me. Thank You! It was fun while it lasted.

I think the treasure is fake and here's why. He's concerned with his legacy, and no one is going to talk about him after the treasure is gone. It's also impossible to prove that its fake because to prove that its real you have to find it, but it could be fake or it could just have yet to be found.

Can we not talk about the possibility of some random hiker finding the treasure without even knowing who Forrest Fenn is.. That would crush all these poor people's spirits lmao..

Imagine the treasure box will be found in a hundred years and you see a note in a box saying please love the forest its more than 2million this is when the time you realize that all of the forest are gone

One piece is real and out there, this is the age of pirates and treasure hunters!

Cliché as it is, the journey is its own reward. Speaking as someone who nearly didn't leave an operating table alive last Summer, we sometimes forget to notice the sheer simple splendor of the world around us and often fail to just stop in utter wonder. This point is illustrated perfectly at the end of this vid when our intrepid hunters put their quest on hold to look at the herds of animals and the land. It's even possible that they might have failed to see that singular rainbow if their heads were buried in maps. I was also struck by how many people were tackling this mystery with partners. Whether that is true of the other hunters out there or not, the journey is arguably better when you are not alone. Especially when you are not entirely certain of your destination. Perhaps part of the spirit of the hunt is that not only does the journey change ourselves, but also those who travel with us; strengthening the ties that bind us to our friends, our family, and perhaps even to all of humanity itself. Thank you, Estelle and Zach for sharing your amazing experience with the world. It was very inspirational and something that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. Take care and good luck in your quest! :)

what if it's literally under the home of brown, like in the basement lol

Just in July 2018 I was right about a mile and a half away from where you were because I had visited Yellowstone and surrounding area can’t believe I didn’t know about this.

The real treasure is the bond of friendship that you have formed while searching

This video is just an excuse to go on a holiday. great job convicing vox to pay for it

I thought the moment when Americans question their sanity is when Trump won the election?

3 year's later after this video was uploaded the treasurer has been found. Hope the person found it enjoyed the nature and the hut for the treasurer.

Fenn is a old man you gotta be practical and go where an old man could go.

I have to say, you have a pretty country, americans.

the treasure is obviously underwater which is body height just enough to walk in and where the water is still #cave

The true treasure to be found is just getting out and enjoying nature, especially Yellowstone National Park.

I hit the subscribe button as well to follow your next mission and more. Like i say finders keepers to anyone that finds it.

This is all fine and dandy but any enthusiast like Finn would know not to hide it anywhere in a national park...That would make it property of the national park system and illegal to remove.

The place is beautiful. Maybe that's the treasure.

Well, looks like it has been finally discovered. I hope we get to see the chest and its contents one day.

"Where a 79 year old man could carry out bury a 45 pound treasure chest." Besides the poem, which someone has evidently deciphered, that was the most important clue leading them to the treasure. A clue that many people have CLEARLY overlooked lol which is why an estimated four people have died in the attempt. There was never any reason whatsoever to go too far off the beaten path. Or spelunk through caverns and over cliffs, putting lives at risk when a little common sense is enough to realize it would only ever be hidden where an elderly man would be capable of safely accessing. Edit; I'm glad somebody finally found it, it means the real treasure WASN'T just the friends we made along the way. 🤣

The Treasure was right front of you. You were there. You were just focusing on something else. It is the Rocky Mountains, the Yellowstone, the whole nature around you and the time you spent there. That's the real Treasure. And now you have the treasure forever and no one can take that away from you.

Already found or retrieved by Fenn himself. Location was right next to Chalk Creek near St. Elmo, Colorado. Fenn was elderly so he wasn't going to hike into a difficult remote location. He chose Chalk Creek possibly because he already had been there a number of times fly fishing. It's a straight shot up from his home in Santa Fe, not hard to get to. He makes reference to chalk in his poem and he's also seen in a photo next to an old gravestone and there is a graveyard near where the treasure is buried. The House of Brown is a historical landmark in St. Elmo about 200 feet from the treasure. He makes reference to no paddle and Chalk creek is very rocky and not the kind of creek anyone could traverse in a canoe, etc. There's also a hot springs right in that area "where warm waters end". He makes reference at one point in his bio to "national forests" and if you click on the campground near St. Elmo on Google maps, up pops an picture of a big sign that says "National Forest". The hole where the box was buried has been found and it's clearly a perfectly rectangular hole exactly the size of the box Fenn described. There's also bark scattered around the hole that did not fall off the tree there and it appears to have been collected from somewhere else. Fenn makes reference to being "in the wood" and it's probable he was referring to the bark he used to cover the box. We may never know who found it and it may well have been someone who was just in the area camping or fishing who stumbled on it and didn't even know the story surrounding it. It's possible Fenn himself changed his mind and went back and got it but my gut instinct is that isn't the case. It's also possible the person or people who dug it up just wanted to remain anonymous and may have feared some kind of legal dispute over ownership of the treasure so they never came forward and just sold the contents.

Elderly man keeps his name living for years after death by keeping people looking for his treasure that doesn't exist. Brilliant hoax

that shot with the grazing bison and rainbow in the background is just stunning

What I got from this video is that the American landscape is truly breathtaking! :)

another Vox video where someone uses a phone while driving...

Fenn said it wasn't in a cave though.

If you had access to ground-penetrating radar tech you could find it within a matter of days, so long as you were in the 200 mile radius.

"It's definitely not in there!" Forest Fenn: "The new record is now within 5 ft."

When we were in Wyoming I had a vision on my dream where the treasure was hidden. Very vivid I can still remember everything on my dream 3 clues on my dream. We will be back there again . That was a great trip 5 days was not enough to see all the beauties of Yellowstone and next time we will do a better plan and route.

The first thing I did in the Search, as Fenn instructs, was to read TTOTC and the poem, picking it apart for clues. Then I read his other two books of Memoirs, and opinions of other searchers. Eight years of this and one vacation around Yellowstone!

Anyone else watching after Unsolved's ep?

Should put 4chan on the treasure hunt.

He's not giving anything away. He wants to be remembered so he makes a riddle that is just vague enough that people think they can figure it out.

“You want my treasure? You can have it! I have gathered everything I have in one place, now you just have to find it” - Gol D. Roger

What if someone already found it but didn't tell anyone?

Yellowstone is so beautiful i want to go

History was just made. Very elusive treasure hunt has just concluded. 6/6/20

Met someone that was on the hunt for it when I was there. Came out with the priceless enjoyment of nature instead of treasure.

How does anyone know somebody came within 200 feet? That's he really clue