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i think forrest wanted to become a legend and i actually think he succeeded he was
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described as a modern-day indiana jones forrest came up with the idea to hide a bronze
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chest filled with gold somewhere in the rocky mountains i bought this beautiful little treasure
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chest and i started filling it up with wonderful things there's 265 gold coins hundreds and hundreds of gold nuggets he
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wrote a 24 line poem guiding people to the location of the treasure yeah that's exactly it he created effectively
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a treasure map in the form of that poem i'm going to read the poem so here it goes
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as i have gone alone in there and with my treasures bold i can keep my secret wear and hint
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of riches new and old there'll be no paddle up your creek just heavy loads and water high so hear
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me all and listen good your effort will be worth the cold if you've been brave and in the wood
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i give you title to the goal and i read that poem and oh god it was like a hook no place for the meek the bug got in me
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and i couldn't let it go i tried to climb up into that cave there i couldn't sleep i thought it was the
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coolest thing i'd ever heard how much was that treasure worth i think that one million is a pretty good mark
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to use [Music] i made at least 85 trips i didn't find the treasure yet we had so
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much fun it was crazy since there's a mountain lion in the area we don't want to take
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any chances so we're bringing our gun i have spent over 2 000 hours this is where i ran into my
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rattlesnake searching for forest fence treasure well i made it hard deliberately
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if it was easy anyone could do it for at least five people the search for fenn's
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treasure was the last thing they ever did yes unfortunately you know this treasure
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hunt did claim at least five lives randy billy was the first paris wallace also died in the rio grande river
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[Music] eric ashby died in the arkansas river there was a gentleman who was hiking in
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yellowstone and ended up falling off of a cliff two men who went out with snowmobiles
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i've got them in sight still one of them froze to death and the other one was hospitalized
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forrest fenn was a bad person he could have stopped this madness before it became what it became
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[Music] it wasn't worth it how does forrest fenn respond to that by to some degree digging in his heels
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he didn't like the idea that anyone would tell him to bring his hunt to an end because of a few deaths he said that
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if somebody was murdered because of the hunt that would probably be too much