Gold and Greed: The Hunt for Fenn's Treasure

You Can’t Make This Up

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True Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Film Interviews

4.2 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Forrest Fenn caught the imagination of the world when he announced he’d hidden a treasure chest filled with riches somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. All you had to do was solve a riddle to find it. The quest for gold drew many a treasure hunter into the wilderness, all with different theories on where each arcane clue should lead them. But for some, the ten-year-long hunt became an obsession, causing them to lose money, relationships, and for some, their lives. When the chest was found in 2020, rather than celebrating, many wondered if they’d been bamboozled. The Netflix series Gold and Greed: The Hunt for Fenn’s Treasure brings us inside the quest to solve the million-dollar mystery. Additionally, the series features hidden clues to a whole new hunt, revealing where X marks the spot. The series tells the stories of some of the people who turned their world upside down to find a buried treasure that could change their lives. In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, host Rebecca Lavoie interviews director Jared McGillard. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't watched Gold and Greed: The Hunt for Fenn’s Treasure yet, make sure to add it to your watch-list before listening on. Dig deeper into all of your favorite Netflix documentaries and films at Tudum.com. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts.

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0:00.0	I'm Rebecca Levoy, and this is You Can't Make This Up.
0:15.0	You Can't Make This Up is the podcast where we uncover the true stories behind your favorite Netflix documentaries and films.
0:20.8	On today's episode, we take a closer look at the Netflix documentary series,
0:25.5	Gold and Greed, The Hunt for Fenn's Treasure.
0:28.2	What's wild about this treasure hunt is that treasure is real.
0:32.0	It was found.
0:33.5	And despite all of the misadventures and cautionary lessons, I know that someone has re-hidden the treasure.
0:42.1	Today we're talking to director Jared McGillard.
0:44.8	Forest Fen caught the imagination of the world when he announced he'd hidden a treasure chest filled with riches somewhere in the Rocky Mountains.
0:52.2	All you had to do was solve a riddle to find it.
0:55.2	The quest for gold drew many a treasure hunter into the wilderness, all with different theories
0:59.9	on where each arcane clue should lead them. But for some, the 10-year-long hunt became an
1:05.3	obsession, causing them to lose money, relationships, and for some, their lives. When the chest was found in 2020,
1:12.5	rather than celebrating, many wondered if they'd been bamboozled. The Netflix series Golden
1:17.5	Greed, The Hunt for Fenn's Treasure, brings us inside the quest to solve the million-dollar mystery.
1:23.0	Plus, the series features hidden clues to a whole new hunt, teasing where X marks the spot.
1:29.2	The series tells the story of some of the people who turned their world upside down to find a buried treasure that could change their lives.
1:35.9	And for me, that obsession is unhealthy because it has no end.
1:54.4	Yeah. is unhealthy because it has no end. And I'm joined now by executive producer and director Jared McGillard.
1:58.1	Welcome to You Can't Make This Up, Jared.
2:00.0	Thanks so much, Rebecca. Great to be here.
2:02.2	So at what point did you look at this story and decide it would be a great topic for a documentary?
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