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News Articles: Treasure hunt

This metal box containing around $10,000 of gold, currency, and historic San Francisco artifacts was found late on May 13 on West Ridge Trail in Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve, San Francisco.

Treasure worth $10,000 was hidden in San Francisco. And then someone found it

People ran around San Francisco on Tuesday looking for a chest filled with gold and local artifacts after seeing an anonymous post on Reddit with cryptic clues.

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  • Chloe Veltman
Cynthia Meachum, above, is a searcher who became close with Forrest Fenn, the man who hid the treasure. <em>Gold & Greed: The Hunt for Fenn's Treasure </em>is a new Netflix docuseries that<em> </em>chronicles the search.

He enticed amateur sleuths into the wilderness with buried treasure. It didn't go well

In 2010, a wealthy man announced that he'd hidden a box of gold and jewels somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. The Netflix docuseries Gold & Greed chronicles the ill-fated search for Fenn's Treasure.

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  • Linda Holmes
This is the slightly ethereal-looking prize everyone was hunting for.

I went on a real life treasure hunt. This is what I discovered

A golden trophy and pot of prize money worth more than $100,000 was hidden in a forest recently. So of course I joined in the hunt.

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  • Kai McNamee