24- Forrest Fenn's Treasure, Death and Crime. Yellowstone and Beyond.

National Park After Dark

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True Crime, Places & Travel, Wilderness, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Forrest Fenn was dying when he decided to come up with a treasure hunt. He had plans to give 2 million dollars worth of his gold and treasures to anyone that could find where he hid it. He wrote a poem with 9 clues that would lead one lucky person somewhere into the Rocky Mountains. What he wasn't counting on was all the people that would die, the destruction it would cause, and the crimes that he himself would become a victim of.

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Sources:Chasing the Thrill - Obsession, Death, and Glory in America's Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt by Daniel Barbarisi. Medium.com. Jackson Hole News. CBS News.

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0:00.0	What would you do with $2 million?
0:05.4	Would you buy your dream home?
0:07.8	Maybe your dream car.
0:10.0	Would you use that money to travel the world?
0:13.2	Maybe you decide to be a little less reckless and invest it and save it.
0:17.8	Or maybe you'd use that money so you could finally go back to school and land that dream
0:22.0	job that you've been thinking about for years.
0:25.9	Think about it.
0:27.2	If you found $2 million right now, what would you do?
0:34.2	There would be so many possibilities, so many new doors of dreams that would just open
0:40.0	up for you if only you had that money.
0:46.2	Now what if I told you that there was a treasure chest that someone had hidden worth $2 million?
0:53.4	And all you need to do for it to be yours is to solve a riddle and find it.
0:59.8	Listen very carefully because I'm going to read that riddle to you right now.
1:07.2	As I have gone alone and there and with my treasures bold, I can keep my secret wear
1:13.4	and hint of riches new and old.
1:17.1	Begin it where warm waters halt and take in the canyon down.
1:22.0	Not far, but too far to walk.
1:25.9	Put in below the home of Brown.
1:29.0	From there it's no place for the meek.
1:31.4	The end is ever drawing, now.
1:33.9	There will be no paddle up your creek, just heavy loads and water high.
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