Treasure hunter gets shut down

[Truth]

So close.... https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/treasure-hunter-unearths-trouble/

 

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[Honest Samuel]

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[buck8point]

Thats gotta suck for him...

 

[trdking]

Poor guy will swear he had it on his death bed

 

[Truth]

That’s gotta be haunting. He’ll die a bitter man.

 

[ecmo]

If I remember correctly in Fenns poem of clues the treasue is in plain sight and need not be dug.

 

[Madmox]

And really.... an 85 year old man digging a 15 foot hole by hand.....seems like a stretch to me. What is the first rule of archaeology? It’s almost impossible to truly fill a hole. Therefore why would he bury it, especially so deep, when really getting rid of a hole so deep is almost impossible.

 

[Ronzie]

You'd think this guy who supposedly spent $40,000 looking for this would know that there is no way it's buried 15 feet down if at all lol.

 

[ecmo]

If you Google his poem of clues you will see in the 5th paragraph where he says he's old and tired. Doesn't sound to me like he dug a deep hole.

 

[against the wind]

What is $300.?
If I was still getting a signal at 15 feet and was only a foot or two from the target, I wouldn't let a fine of $300. Keep me from getting to Al Capone's empty safe. I'm sure the Discovery Channel would cut through the red tape with a payoff for permission to film the conclusion of this dig.

 

[1320]

Scott Conway has made an astounding 17 visits to the state in search of an infamous cache of riches allegedly hidden somewhere in the area by eccentric author Forrest Fenn. However, his exhaustive treasure hunt took a rather maddening turn after he was busted by park rangers digging on state land in a spot which he believes is mere feet from the prize.

The ill-fated treasure hunt came to an abrupt end this past May when Conway and a pair of companions were digging at a location somewhere in New Mexico's Heron State Park. The impromptu excavation spawned a hole which measured a whopping 15 feet deep and a metal detector indicated that something metallic if they dug just a few feet deeper. Alas, it was not to be as park rangers showed up and stopped the crew from doing any further digging.

Conway was subsequently charged with destroying park property as well as using a metal detector in the protected area of land without a permit. In total, he was reportedly fined around $300 dollars, which is a proverbial drop in the bucket for the erstwhile treasure hunter who has spent a jaw-dropping $40,000 on the pursuit over the years. What's more difficult for Conway is that he is certain that they were about the find the treasure and now he cannot finish the dig.

To his credit, he even ventured back to New Mexico last month in an attempt to convince park officials to let him resume the dig, but was rebuffed. "They tried zero effort to look into the situation," Conway lamented, "all they see is a hole." For his part, Fenn was coy about whether or not the treasure hunter was on the right track, noting that he never claimed to have buried the riches ... but that he also never said that he didn't. Perhaps the only way to know for sure if Conway was correct is if a park ranger suddenly retires later this summer under curious circumstances and with a lot of newfound wealth.

 

[Duckshot]

The state park ranger found treasure at the bottom of the hole- $300.

 

[Peyton Manning]

thought this was gonna be about kemper finally getting T_H to crack!

 

[Argentium]

Ridiculous to think that Fenn dug 15 feet - he claims to have carried the box by himself to it's resting place. At the time he hid the treasure he was 80 years old - I believe he drove to a beautiful place , North of Santa Fe -( Colorado ?) Got out of the car , placed the" box" in a back pack - and hiked a short distance - out of sight of passers by - and he hid the box within a ten minute walk from his car. This an opinion formed by looking at the facts as I understand them to be , an 80 year old man , with a 40 lb. box - by himself ! He has given that it is North of Santa Fe, above 5000 ft. elevation, and it's in the Rocky Mountains .

 

[digger27]

I had a few of those, "The target is just a little deeper", holes in my lifetime, I just quit digging them after this one ended up being a dead end.

 

[Argentium]

Is that a DeBeers diamond mine in South Africa ?

 

[Holyground]

He should have pitched a tent right over the dig. He could have taken the treasure, then set a booby trap for the park rangers. That's what I would do.

 

[Truth]

What is $300.?
If I was still getting a signal at 15 feet and was only a foot or two from the target, I wouldn't let a fine of $300. Keep me from getting to Al Capone's empty safe. I'm sure the Discovery Channel would cut through the red tape with a payoff for permission to film the conclusion of this dig.

I agree I would take my charge and pay those fines that’s not a lot of money when you’ve already spent $40,000 in research.

 

[dirtdigginfool]

I had a few of those, "The target is just a little deeper", holes in my lifetime, I just quit digging them after this one ended up being a dead end.

Finally pulled that pull tab after 700 feet!