“Gosh darn, we had four or five people call us,” he said. They had planned to return to the West Yellowstone area this spring and resume their search. When news of the treasure being found spread, Buehring and his wife were disheartened. Fenn never spent any time on the Stillwater River, Buehring said, but did spend time in West Yellowstone. They believe the treasure had been hidden in the West Yellowstone region near the Madison River. Red Lodge resident Rex Buehring said his wife, Kasey, had hung Fenn’s poem on her mirror to analyze the clues. It was buried in southwest Wyoming, he said. One Billings resident, who asked to remain anonymous, said he helped a man from Ohio find the treasure.
Was there ever a treasure? Did Fenn recover it himself because some hunters were getting close? If not, why is the person who found the treasure remaining silent? Are they afraid of being mobbed by the media or people seeking to swindle them out of their hard-found fortune? The Billings Gazette received emails from other seekers, including residents of Ohio and New Jersey who did not return calls seeking more information. So even with the reported solving of Fenn’s riddle and supposed recovery of the hidden riches, the mystery of it all continues to gnaw at treasure hunters. In a letter to The Billings Gazette, Klasky wrote that Fenn’s poem “seemed to have the cadence of ‘The Night Before Christmas.’” Consequently, his reading of the clues are linked to Santa, including the passage that reads: “The answers I already know,” which he said refers to Santa knowing who is naughty and nice.Ĭascade, Colorado, is about an hour’s drive from Santa Fe, Klasky noted. The community is home to North Pole Santa’s Workshop, a themed amusement park. Telling others was a way for him to get the solve off his chest.īoulder resident Paul Klasky thinks the treasure was hidden near him, in the small town of Cascade, Colorado. “He said it would be simple,” Dyrud said. To Dyrud, the wheel marked the spot where Fenn’s poem said warm waters halt, the warm waters being tears shed by those coming to the Medicine Wheel for healing. Lining up Santa Fe - Fenn’s hometown - with the North Star led Dyrud to the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming and its Medicine Wheel, an ancient ceremonial stone circle used by Native Americans for centuries. Retired Greeley dairy worker Bill Dyrud got sucked into the Fenn treasure hunt after watching a YouTube video on the subject while “lazying in bed one night.” “I’ve seen a lot of these solves, and they are crazy,” Hill said. Two years after first reading about the treasure, during a trip to Yellowstone, he began his search and became more intrigued. “I kind of felt like my deceased grandfather was urging me,” he said. The story of the Fenn fortune appealed to Hill because his grandfather had given him books on treasure hunting he read as a child. Hill thinks he may have even met the person who found the treasure while exploring the area last year. One of the wrinkles was the presence of so many “wild critters” on the landscape, including wolves, cougars and bears. Using those clues, he tracked the treasure to an old mining area north of Gardiner in a drainage on the west side of the Yellowstone River. Hill said Fenn’s riddle points to stories from Norse mythology. Hill said the clues Fenn gave when viewed via Google Earth are like a pictograph, symbols painted by prehistoric humans to tell stories or recount visions. “I really hope that’s the case,” that someone found the treasure, she said.Īttorney Boyd Hill is certain he came close to finding the treasure last year on a foray into the Gardiner Basin, just north of Yellowstone National Park. Five people have died searching for the booty, and many more have required rescue after becoming lost or stranded in the Rocky Mountains.Īlthough some members of her family questioned her search, Kaplar said her grandchildren loved the exploration. Maybe Fenn called off the search because of “all the craziness,” she said. “We’re old-timers to the area, but never went into the backcountry,” she said, instead often visiting in the winter to snowmobile.ĭespite locating what she thinks is the indent where the treasure was buried, Kaplar remains skeptical.
The park was closed for seven weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic. Using clues she found using Google Earth, an online mapping program, she arrived at the impression the second day that Yellowstone opened to travelers this spring. A few folks took him up on his dare, The Billings Gazette reported.Īlpine, Utah, grandmother Janet Kaplar believes she found the hole where the treasure had been hidden - a boggy area in northern Yellowstone National Park between Swan Lake and Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming.
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