• Erik Jensen, the artist who creates amazing paintings with keyboards
  • Creators: Rita, the mother of a computer scientist who 'hacked' a prison with a USB and a folder

A decade ago Forrest Fern published a memoir in which a 24-verse poem appeared with the nine clues necessary to find the treasure he had buried in the mountain. After ten years, thousands of entries in blogs and internet forums and even deaths of people who were looking for it, the treasure has been found.

Long before, in 1988 Forrest Fern had received a terrible diagnosis: he had cancer that seemed terminal. Surprisingly, he survived. In 2010, this former pilot-professional; fought in the United States Air Force-, adventurer and collector -as an amateur in this case- decided to create a kind of song to hope with which to share the luck he had had and buried a chest in a secret location in the Rocky Mountains bronze with dozens of gold pieces and jewelry.

"The treasure has been found," explained Fern in an entry published in one of the blogs dedicated to his chest. "He was under a canopy of stars in the lush forested Rocky Mountain vegetation and had not moved from where I hid him more than 10 years ago."

The story of Fenn and his chest came at the perfect time, with a mature internet that could create communities for anyone looking for the treasure, either obsessively or out of curiosity.

The path to find the chest "begins where the temperate waters stop," according to the poem, and continues down a canyon. Where? "Not far, but too far to walk." These and other critical clues circulated on forums and networks for a decade without anyone explaining how an elderly Forrest had been able to hide the heavy chest by himself.

Also, of course, doubts and skeptics arose, who claimed that it had to be a hoax . What if the author himself had returned to the place where he buried the gold to retrieve it? At the end of the day, his self-published memories have become almost a best-seller that in Amazon part of the 139 euros of second-hand.

What there is no doubt about is that people flocked in search of riches. In 2018, according to his estimates, 350,000 people had already tried to solve the puzzle (in 2016 there were only 65,000 and the source was still himself, so maybe he exaggerated a little). In any case, the New Mexico police even asked Fern to cancel the search after two people died in the mountains while trying to find the treasure.

At the moment, the adventurer knows who got hold of him, but maintains that it was the poem that brought this person to the right place. "The search is over," he said goodbye before assuring that in the next few days he will provide more information and images.

For his part, Dal Neitzel, author of the blog that Fern used to report the finding, hopes Fern will post the exact location. "We all want to know how close we were," he explained to Motherboard.

In accordance with the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

  • Internet

How Trump's executive order affects Google, Facebook and Twitter

PeopleAvi, the 17-year-old 'Steve Jobs' who refuses to cover himself with the pandemic: "I don't need 8 million"

CreatorsErik Jensen, the artist who creates amazing pictures with keyboards

Close links of interest

  • Last News
  • TV programming
  • English translator
  • Work calendar
  • Daily horoscope
  • Santander League Ranking
  • League calendar
  • TV Movies
  • Cut notes 2019
  • Themes