While summertime tends to bring treasure hunting hobbyists outdoors, finding treasure or valuable property is not always as simple as “finders keepers.” MILLIONAIRE FORREST FENN’S TREASURE CHEST ...

It took two months of correspondence before the man who found Forrest Fenn’s treasure told me his name. We’d been emailing since September, and I honestly didn’t expect to ever know who he really was.

In 2010, eccentric millionaire Forrest Fenn launched a treasure hunt when he announced that he had hidden a chest worth an estimated $1 million in the Rocky Mountains. Tens of thousands of people set ...

Spoiler alert: This story contains a major twist in the new Netflix series Greed & Gold: The Hunt for Fenn’s Treasure, a docuseries based on the New York Magazine story “The Great 21st-Century ...