This undated photo provided by the National Park Service shows Fort Yellowstone Cemetery, in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. A Utah man has pleaded guilty after authorities said he was caught digging in a Yellowstone National Park cemetery in search of hidden treasure. – A Utah man has pleaded guilty after authorities said he was caught digging in a Yellowstone National Park cemetery in search of hidden treasure. Craythorn caused more than $1,000 in damage by digging in the Fort Yellowstone Cemetery between Oct. 1, 2019, and May 24, 2020, prosecutors alleged. Several people seeking the treasure had to be rescued from precarious situations and as many as six died.

Jonathan “Jack” Stuef, 32, found the treasure in June, Fenn grandson Shiloh Forrest Old posted Monday on a website dedicated to the treasure. The poem inspired many to go treasure hunting — sometimes getting into precarious situations in the unforgiving Rocky Mountain backcountry. Fenn said repeatedly the treasure wasn't in a dangerous or especially hard-to-reach place but at least four people died searching for the chest. Stuef denied the allegations, saying he never met nor heard of the woman before the lawsuit and the treasure was nowhere near New Mexico, Barbarisi wrote. Stuef didn't return a phone message left Monday by The Associated Press seeking comment on finding the treasure.

Police confirmed Fenn died Monday of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was only in recent months that Fenn announced his treasure had supposedly been found in Wyoming by someone he didn't name. Fenn had said he packed and repacked his bronze treasure chest for more than a decade, sprinkling in gold dust and adding hundreds of rare gold coins and gold nuggets. Fenn rebuffed those requests, saying it wouldn't be fair to those who spent time and money looking for the treasure chest. Fenn spent nearly two decades in the Air Force, including his decorated service as a fighter pilot in Vietnam.

If, by chance, youve been trying to find a hidden treasure chest somewhere in the Rocky Mountains over the past 10 years, feel free to call off the search. In 2010, New Mexico multimillionaire Forrest Fenn hid a treasure chest in the Rocky Mountains valued at more than $2 million and encouraged people to go find it, according to TODAY. It took 10 years, but Fenn revealed over the weekend that the treasure chest filled with coins, nuggets, diamonds and emeralds has been found. There were even casualties of the chase, with the Santa Fe New Mexican reporting that at least five people died searching for the chest. One of those fatalities was a pastor who was found dead along the Rio Grande just west of Santa Fe, according to the Albuquerque Journal.

SANTA FE, N.M. SANTA FE, N.M.A bronze chest filled with gold, jewels, and other valuables worth more than $1 million and hidden a decade ago somewhere in the Rocky Mountain wilderness has been found, according to a famed art and antiquities collector who created the treasure hunt. Fenn, who lives in Santa Fe, said he packed and repacked his treasure chest for more than a decade, sprinkling in gold dust and adding hundreds of rare gold coins and gold nuggets. Pre-Columbian animal figures went in, along with prehistoric mirrors of hammered gold, ancient Chinese faces carved from jade and antique jewelry with rubies and emeralds. Fenn told The New Mexican in 2017 that the chest weighs 20 pounds (9 kilograms) and its contents weigh another 22 pounds (10 kilograms). He said he delivered the chest to its hiding place by himself over two separate trips.