63. A Medical Student Discovers Forrest Fenn Treasure
Locations: Rocky Mountains
The Year 2020 has been Discovered
Est. Value: $2 million*
A treasure worth $2 million was buried in the Rocky Mountains by an antiquities trader years ago. Forrest Fenn, an eccentric man who created a treasure-hunt that many people tried to complete but died in the process. Former art mogul Forrest Fenn invited treasure seekers to search for what he’d hidden. It took years before anyone was successful.
Unidentified student medical found the treasure 300,000 others had been unable to. He published the treasure hunt codes in The Art of the Chaseand said that it made him both “sad and glad” to see the student crack his code.
64. Two kids find a Ferrari buried in their backyard
Location: Los Angeles, California
Date of discovery: 1978
Est. Value: $853,000*
Two boys in California began digging their backyard. The boys found a 1974 Ferrari Dino GTS just a few inches below the surface of their dirt. It was wrapped in towels and a plastic tarp to indicate that the former owner intended to exhume this Dino one day.
That’s not the whole story. It turns out that the Dino’s previous owner had hired thieves to steal the car, dump it into the ocean and commit insurance fraud. The thieves instead buried the vehicle, hoping that they would return later to retrieve it in an insurance fraud plan which never worked out. This wacky story would be a fantastic IMAX film.
