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00:00I was at a friend's house. He told me a guy by the name of Forrest Fenn had some treasure worth
00:06about what at the time he was saying one to five million dollars.
00:10I would love to be a millionaire one day. We're rednecks, but not stupid rednecks.
00:16What if we told you there was a treasure chest somewhere in the mountains north of Santa Fe?
00:21Find the treasure chest and it's yours. It's life-changing money.
00:25You have a map and you get to solve it. You get to find it.
00:28Who wouldn't want to be Indiana Jones?
00:31Forrest Fenn hides the treasure more than ten years ago.
00:34And nobody's found it in all these years. But in order to find it, you'll need to solve clues hidden in a poem.
00:41People went nuts.
00:44People started posting their solutions to the puzzle.
00:47Something to do with latitude and longitude. We used the cipher to decrypt the poem.
00:52We're coming, Mr. Fenn. We're coming.
00:54We're coming. Yee-haw!
00:56We had it all lined up.
00:58This treasure hunt became this massive phenomenon.
01:00Forrest became kind of a god-like figure in the treasure community.
01:05And that's a lot of power to have.
01:07He lived in my head for free for 24 hours of the day.
01:11Over 300,000 people took part in it.
01:15People spent years of their lives.
01:17Two years.
01:18Ten years.
01:19We're not gonna stop.
01:20Wait!
01:22It did turn into madness.
01:25The treasure hunters would do anything to get to the finish line.
01:32One of the treasure hunters decided to start stalking my dogs.
01:36At this point, four people have died.
01:39Your granddaughter's being stalked.
01:42People are breaking into your home.
01:44People started asking Forrest, why don't you call off the hunt?
01:47Now that it was a matter of life and death.
01:49Do not call this off.
01:51Shit happens.
01:55If somebody drowns in a swim pool, should we drain the pool?
01:58Or should we teach people to swim?
02:07I know that someone has re-hidden the treasure.
02:13What the fuck?
02:19To Be Continued