IDENTIFIED!!! Man that found Rocky Mountain treasure comes forward.

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. I was fine with that; as a fellow treasure hunter, I completely understood his desire for anonymity.

Since 2017, I had been pursuing Fenn’s treasure, too, becoming a kinda-sorta searcher in order to tell the story of Fenn’s hunt in my upcoming book Chasing the Thrill, to be published by Knopf in June. I’d been in the trenches, read Fenn’s clue-filled poem over and over, ended up in places I probably shouldn’t have been, and gone to places where other people died trying to find it.

And that’s when I learned that a 32-year-old Michigan native and medical student was the person who had finally solved Fenn’s poem. His name is Jack Stuef.

Not so sure just knowing his name is all that compelling. I’d like to hear about how and where he found it.

Turns out the after the depositor wrote the book and published it, death threats, aborted kidnapping attempt and looky loos bothered him the rest of his life. The finder knew this and wanted privacy. A law suit has now exposed him.

I knew a guy that liked to jack stuff. He'd hide food from the grocery store in the inside pockets of his trench coat.

Me too. It’s a start. Betcha a book is coming.

Ok that’s funny. I knew a guy that would suck all the nitrous out of the whip creme and put them back.

so what was the treasure? stinky old socks or something?

Over a million in coins, jewels, artifacts and bullion. Stored in a vault in NM.

I only posted the link because the story itself is a great read.

Buried in 2010. Found 2020. At least 5 died searching.

Thanks OP very interesting! Too bad some of glp's fine investigators could not have worked together to figure this riddle out, but could you just imagine the infighting that would have gone on in that scenario....lol

Took the guy only 2 years. This is what caused all the trouble. Since others had been looking for 8 years.


“ He explained that in 2018 he had figured out the location where the longtime Santa Fe art dealer and former fighter pilot wished to die, and then spent a combined 25 days over the next two years searching the general area until he finally located the treasure. He said that, to find the solution, he’d carefully listened to things Fenn had said in interviews, finding a few crucial crumbs.”

Still finishing the story. Pretty insane. The finder wrote an essay on medium and that’s how this writer found him. And thanks to you too for stopping by.

“[Fenn] never made more than a couple of subtle slip-ups in front of all the dogged reporters who came to his house, and even those apparently haven’t been caught by anyone besides me,” the finder wrote.


Isn’t that the plot to Player One? One kid starts reading news stories and watching interviews to find the gold key.

Just one look at Fenn's collectibles in that picture is enough to tell you that this hunt was always going to be more of a spiritual hunt than anything gps based...IMO

This link has the only picture of the chest I’ve found and you can see something big and gold in the corner.

[link to thefinder.medium.com (secure)]

That what it says towards the end. He said it’s not wrong to use gps and other technology but it wasn’t needed. The point was for us to get out of our homes and realize we are spiritual and to embrace it.

Glad to see DB Cooper finally giving his ill gotten gains to someone who can use them for good.