Andersen asked the court to block the items in the treasure chest from being auctioned and to turn the chest over to her.Ī lawyer for the Fenn estate did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday, and efforts to reach Mr. Fenn’s poem and scouting out the general location of the treasure, someone hacked her cellphone and stole proprietary information that led them to the trove. The lawyer, Barbara Andersen, said that after she had spent several years painstakingly deciphering Mr. Fenn and the anonymous person who found the treasure. District Court in Santa Fe on June 8 against Mr. Two days after the discovery, a Chicago lawyer filed a lawsuit in U.S. “I hope that place will always remain as pristine as when he first discovered it. “When I go back some day to lie down beneath those towering pines, tilt my hat over my face to shield against the bright sun, and drift off into one more afternoon nap in that serene forest in the wilds of the Cowboy State, I know he will be resting there next to me,” he wrote. Stuef was coy about the details of the discovery in his tribute to Mr. Stuef wrote on Medium, “so it wouldn’t be prudent to continue to own the Fenn Treasure.” “Alas, I’m a millennial and have student loans to pay off,” Mr. Fenn had estimated had contained a $2 million hoard that included gold nuggets, coins, sapphires, diamonds and pre-Columbian artifacts. Stuef did not say where he found the treasure chest, which Mr.
And maybe I didn’t want to admit to myself what a hold it had on me.” “If I didn’t find it, I would look kind of like an idiot. “I think I got a little embarrassed by how obsessed I was with it,” Mr. Fenn’s hidden treasure in 2018 and became obsessed with recovering it. Stuef did not immediately respond to requests for comment, but he told Outside magazine in an article published on Monday that he learned of Mr. Fenn posted on the website Medium in September, in which the writer said he had found the treasure. Stuef came forward as the author of an anonymous remembrance of Mr. “We congratulate Jack on finding and retrieving the treasure chest, and we hope that this confirmation will help to dispel the conjecture, conspiratorial nonsense, and refusals to accept the truth,” Mr. Stuef’s name because of a federal court order in one of the lawsuits in which Mr. Fenn’s grandson Shiloh Forrest Old wrote on Monday that his family had been compelled to make public Mr. Fenn to stop the hunt in 2017, saying that people were putting their lives at risk. It set off a modern-day treasure hunt, one in which at least two people died trying to find the cache and prompted a New Mexico State Police chief to urge Mr. Fenn, who died in September at 90, wrote about the hidden treasure chest in a self-published memoir, “The Thrill of the Chase,” in 2010 and provided clues to the location in 24 cryptic verses of a poem. The student, Jack Stuef, 32, discovered the stash of gold nuggets, gemstones and pre-Columbian artifacts on June 6 in Wyoming, the grandson of the now-deceased antiquities dealer Forrest Fenn wrote on a website dedicated to the treasure. The man who found a hidden treasure chest said to be worth about $2 million last summer in the Rocky Mountains - one that had tantalized fortune seekers for a decade, led to at least two deaths and spawned lawsuits against the art dealer who stashed it there - was identified on Monday as a medical student from Michigan.