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Inspired by a real-life treasure hunt for $2 million worth of treasure, downtown business owners and friends Justin Auch and Matt Winjum have teamed up to hold a treasure hunt in Grand Forks.

The famed Fenn Treasure fetched a little over $1.3 million in an auction of nearly 500 individual items from the legendary cache of riches.

A filed lawsuit against the late Forrest Fenns estate revealed that his $1 million treasure chest that spurred thousands to search for it across the Rockies was buried in Yellowstone National Park.

Rescue team finds Leo in freezing wilderness after 10 days alone.

It’s been over a year since the Fenn Treasure was found – Forrest Fenn’s adventure netted the finder over $2 million worth of gold and jewels … and cost at least five people their lives. What do you think would happen if Fenn’s treasure was worth $20 billion? Believe it or not, there a treasure... Read more »

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Forrest Fenn hid a treasure somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. Five men died searching for it.

For a decade, Forrest Fenn had lived as creator, promoter, steward, and defender of perhaps the most extraordinary treasure hunt America had ever known. He lived to see its conclusion. And then, barely three months after the hunt he had brought into the world had ended, Fenn was gone. On the morning of September 7, 2020, Fenn was found unconscious in his study, having fallen, according to the police report. He was taken to Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, then released to the care ...

Apr 1, 2021 A Utah man busted for illegally digging at Yellowstone National Park in search of the Fenn Treasure has been sentenced to six months in federal prison and ordered to pay a rather hefty fine for the series of ill-conceived excavations. According to a press release from the Department of Justice, back in late 2019 and early 2020, authorities caught Rodrick Dow Craythorn shoveling holes, such as the one seen above, throughout a cemetery located on a former U.S. Army fort situated withi...

Now that the Fenn Treasure has been found, we can go back to looking for what happened to Amelia Earhart on her round-the-world flight over 80 years ago. That mystery may be about to end with the help of some nuclear scientists from Penn State. Nuclear scientists? “The documentary ended with the idea that maybe, in the future, there will be technology to better examine the clues in Amelia Earhart’s disappearance, including this panel. And I realized that technology exists. I work with it ev...