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Somewhere in the mountains north of Santa Fe, New Mexico is a treasure chest with 2 million dollars in gold, jewels, and precious artifacts buried and hidden.  If you find it, it's yours.  But the catch is you have to find it first.

84-year-old Forrest Fenn of Santa Fe, New Mexico is an eccentric millionaire, a best-selling author, and a crotchety old man, who just might make you rich.

Back in 2010, he buried a treasure chest with $2 million worth of gold, coins, and gemstones somewhere in the Rocky Mountains.  He wrote his memoir, called "The Thrill of the Chase", which gave clues to finding the treasure.

Clearly, that was a marketing strategy that worked, because it became a best-seller.  He has also occasionally dropped other clues, like saying the treasure is 5,000 feet above sea level and "the treasure chest is wet."

But in spite of all that  no one has found it in the five years.  Around 30,000 people have searched, he says some of them, according to Fenn have even gotten within 200 feet, but it's still out there.

He just gave a new interview about it, which should drum up interest again and that's what he wants, saying, "Mostly my motive was to get kids off the couch and away from their texting machines and out in the mountains."  He continues to maintain that the treasure is readily accessible to anyone, including him, even today at age 84 Fenn said  “I could go right there.”

But of course it helps to have the treasure map. Or in this case his book with hints and clues as to the whereabouts of the treasure including a 24 line poem (see below) that ends: “So hear me all and listen good,/Your effort will be worth the cold./If you are brave and in the wood/I give you title to the gold.”

Good luck to ye all and happy hunting.

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