He was hooked on “Push Nevada,” a 2002 television series which allowed viewers to solve a mystery for a million dollar prize. Stuef grew up in Michigan with a passion for adventure. “And maybe I didn’t want to admit to myself what a hold it had on me.” Jack Stuef (left) announced he found the Forrest Fenn treasure. He revealed his search to no one, fearing that he would look “like an idiot” if he didn’t find the loot. “I think I got a little embarrassed by how obsessed I was with it.” “I’ve probably thought about it for at least a couple of hours a day, everyday, since I learned about it,” he told Barbarisi. Stuef, 32, first heard about Fenn’s treasure from a Twitter post in early 2018. The river also proved fatal for Randy Bilyeu, a 54-year-old grandfather who set out aboard a raft with his dog in January 2016 authorities discovered the raft and the dog, but didn’t locate Bilyeau’s body for six months. Five lost their lives searching for the cache, including Paris Wallace, a pastor who died in 2017 while trying to cross a tributary of the Rio Grande. ![]() Some 350,000 would-be Indiana Jones types answered the call. Fenn famously challenged adventurers around the world to a modern-day search for the valuables with clues embedded in a 24-line poem in his memoir, “The Thrill of the Chase.” Much of the trove was still enclosed in the Ziploc bags that Forrest Fenn had used to keep the items safe from the elements when he hid his treasure in 2010. Sitting in a lawyer’s office in Santa Fe, NM, he combed through gold coins, some of them dating back to the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires hunks of gold an intricate Mayan necklace pre-Columbian nose rings Chinese carved jade faces and more “sumptuous jewelry.” It was all found in the summer of 2020 by Jack Stuef, a medical student from Michigan who, fearing an onslaught of legal and other threats, initially tried to remain anonymous. ![]() “I took it, my fingers curling around the base, my hands closing around the raised nine-hundred year-old designs carved into the chest’s side,” writes Barbarisi in his new book, “Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death and Glory in America’s Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt” (Knopf). ![]() WWI-era ammunition round found filled with antique coins, billsĭeep-sea discovery: Sharp-eyed scuba diver uncovers ancient Crusader swordĪfter spending four years searching for a treasure chest that had allegedly been hidden in the Rocky Mountains by an enigmatic antiques dealer, he was now about to hold the storied loot in his hands. World’s largest ‘treasure hoard’ worth over $20 billion may soon be found Climber scores $84K of jewels lost in Mont Blanc plane crash
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