The Treasure Hunt

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.7 • 9.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In 2010, a man named Forrest Fenn took a bronze box filled with treasure into the Rocky Mountains and hid it. He told one treasure hunter, “You just need to put the clues together and go get it.” Justin Posey’s book is called Beyond the Map’s Edge. Say hello on Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts. Want to listen to This is Love ad-free? Sign up for Criminal Plus – you’ll get to listen to This is Love, Criminal, and Phoebe Reads a Mystery without any ads. Plus, you’ll get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal and other exclusive benefits. Learn more and sign up here. We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.9	In 2012, Justin Posey's wife showed him a magazine article that she thought he'd be interested in.
1:21.0	That was really the start of an obsession.
1:24.6	The article was about a treasure hunt, started two years earlier, by a man named
1:29.7	Forrest Fenn.
1:31.7	He said that he'd hidden a box filled with more than a million dollars of items, a 17th
1:36.5	century Spanish ring, turquoise beads, gold nuggets, rubies, sapphires, diamonds, and lots of gold coins.
1:46.1	And he hid the treasure somewhere in the Rockies, and he published a poem that had nine
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