Treasure Hunters

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Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Edit Cast Cast overview: Senator Mendoza Irit Hoffenberg Kerri-Ann Kors Omar Hansen The man behind it all sits in a high-walled study in Santa Fe. It is part office, part treasure-hunting lair, almost every inch covered with artifacts that Fenn acquired during his career as an art and antiquities dealer. On one wall is a large collection of ancestral Puebloan pottery, Apache polychrome baskets and shields. On another are indigenous weapons from numerous Plains Indian tribes, alongside medicine bags and ornate moccasins.

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At 88, Fenn has light eyes, stark white hair that he often covers with a cowboy hat, and a twinkling yet wary demeanor. A year veteran of the air force who survived being shot down in Vietnam twice, Fenn moved to Santa Fe in the s and began searching the American south-west for artifacts to both sell and fill his own collection. He gained renown nationally as an Indiana Jones figure, an adventurer and self-taught archaeologist who is said to have made, or claims to have made, sales to Steven Spielberg, Robert Redford, Michael Douglas and other notables.

But just as the fictional representation of Jones was criticized by professionals for glorifying irresponsible archaeological practices and even looting, Fenn has faced a backlash. He was criticized for purchasing and excavating the San Lazaro ruin, an ancient pueblo south of Santa Fe, potentially hindering scholarly understanding of its history.

Fenn was never charged and denies any allegations of illegal activity. The idea of hiding a treasure came to Fenn in after he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of kidney cancer.

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Fenn would retreat to the mountains with some of his objects and leave a poem that would, if deciphered, lead to his riches and his bones. Though he survived, the idea persisted. Fenn says he spent years writing and rewriting the poem and painstakingly curating the contents of the treasure.

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Douglas Preston, the writer and author of the bestselling book The Lost City of the Monkey God, said he could vouch for the existence of the chest. Preston believes the undertaking is a bid for immortality. Sometime between and , Fenn says he hauled the 42lb antique bronze lockbox into the Rockies.

The poem came out in , and Fenn says every word is a clue. Interest in the treasure was minimal, according to Fenn, until the inflight magazine of United Airlines published an article about it in He is proud that the search has led so many people into the outdoors. To friends like Preston, Fenn is a fabulous storyteller and a man with a penchant for mischief.

These characteristics, and the absence of any physical evidence of the treasure, have led some skeptics to believe that the treasure itself is a hoax.

While positive stories like these are common, there are also unhappier outcomes of the hunt. In September , Randy wrote Fenn an email with the line: His remains were later found near Taos, New Mexico. That same month, the body of the Colorado pastor Paris Wallace was found near Taos.

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In July , the body of Eric Ashby from Colorado was discovered in a river in the state. Some in his family believe he was out searching for the treasure when he died. He told another news outlet:

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