Perhaps Fenn retrieved the treasure himself or there never was a treasure in the first place? Under scrutiny for years, which was magnified due to the coronavirus pandemic, Fenn had been asked by regional authorities to end the hunt. Meanwhile, skeptical observers wondered about a hoax. HeвЂ™d confirmed the discovery by sending a photo to Fenn, who declined to share the photo for the article. In a Santa Fe New Mexican article on June 7, Fenn stated the successful searcher was a man from вЂњback EastвЂќ who wished to remain anonymous. Over the next decade, thousands of amateur sleuths joined an increasingly chaotic chase, which led to dozens of rescues and five known deaths. Fenn published a book with a poem containing nine clues leading to the spot. In 2009, the retired Santa Fe, NM, antiquities collector claimed he hid a treasure worth around $2 million. A brief 100 words offered an anticlimactic ending to a controversial hunt that spanned the Rocky Mountains across four states. ForrestвЂ™s response put my concerns to restвЂ¦and no one (except possibly Doug) knows why Doug made the odd remarks about ForrestвЂ™s car in Colorado and Arizona.вЂњThe treasure has been found,вЂќ wrote Forrest Fenn, in a June 6 post on a popular site dedicated to the ever-widening search for the eccentric collectorвЂ™s storied cache. I sent Forrest the link but I no longer have that link. We all figured Doug knew where it was hidden but now Tankersley is saying he knew tooвЂ¦ Jeese!Дoug does not know and neither does Tankersley, Can you send me what Tankersley said? f

So hearing that two men whom Forrest trusted, called вЂњfriendsвЂќ and were wonderfully successful in their own fascinating careers were rumored to have known the chestвЂ™s hidden location seemed, at the very least, annoying and possibly devastatingвЂ¦so I decided to ask and put the issue to rest. After the chest was located Ken is rumored to have claimed to have known all along where the chest was stashed.ДЇorrest, of course, always claimed that no one knew where the chest was hidden except himself. In 2002 he also authored the book вЂњIn Search of Ice Age AmericansвЂќ with the forward written by Doug Preston. Ken is an Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati where he is an anthropologist and was actively involved with Forrest in a couple of projects including ForrestвЂ™s 1999 вЂњClovis and BeyondвЂќ conference in Santa Fe and in 2006 in KenвЂ™s treatise on Sitting BullвЂ™s Pipe. Several searchers sent me links to Ken claiming to know the location of the chest. ThereforeвЂ¦maybe he really did know something.ДЄnother person rumored to know the location of the chest was Ken Tankersley. He certainly didnвЂ™t need to grab ForrestвЂ™s coattails to garner more. His career and publications provided all the notoriety one could possibly hope for. It seemed possible that Doug had information about the final resting spotвЂ¦why else would he make such peculiar statements about parking lots in Colorado and Arizona? Doug is not a person who needs attention. Doug handed out information about the final location that Forrest never uttered publicly and never bothered to deny. Occasionally though it was not pathetic searchers who claimed to know where Forrest hid his chestвЂ¦it was one of ForrestвЂ™s many friendsвЂ¦and when this occurredвЂ¦the believability ante was considerably raisedвЂ¦Дuring the hunt, rumors flew that author and good friend of ForrestвЂ™s, Doug Preston knew where the chest was hidden. Mostly it was actual searchers who made these claimsвЂ¦and the rest of us, of course were expected to simply lap up their lies, buy their books, pay to watch their YouTube videos or simply feed their pathetic egos by repeating their names and claims ad nauseam. An easy claim to make when you provide no evidence (such as the actual location) to prove your claim. Over the run of ForrestвЂ™s Treasure Hunt many folks claimed to know exactly where Forrest hid his chest.

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