The Forrest Fenn documentary from Netflix starts a new treasure hunt

The Forrest Fenn Treasure Hunt is switched on again, and if you want to find the prey, you need to use Netflix.

This is the large snack by Netflix’s three -part documentary series from Netflix Gold & Gier: The hunt for Fenns Schatz, That went live on Thursday, March 27th. The series counts the decades of hunting to find the chest that Fenn buried in the western United States-and the lives of the people who were instructed in frenzy to find it. In the three 50-minute episodes, the series immerses the good, bad and ugly moments of the Fenn Hunt, including the five deaths.

((Spoiler ahead))) But the headlines and grabbing moment of the series comes in Gold & greed Last minutes. One of the treasure hunters, a software engineer named Justin Posey in the series, reveals that he bought some of the 476 articles from the Fenn treasure after being auctioned in 2022. And now he has the goodies with additional gold, rubies and even a Mett – in a chest Somewhere out theree. To find the fube, you have to decrypt information that is hidden in the three -part series.

“I managed to sneak some hints while filming this series – nobody knows what the hints are next to me, not even the producers,” says Posey in the last scene of the series. “So it is worth seeing exactly and listening exactly.”

To be honest, the revelation explains some of Posey’s strange quirks in the documents. He drives a truck that is wrapped in a topographical map, he sits for interviews in front of computer screens with mountains, streams and lakes and lives in a house with strange artifacts from his own collection.

“Most of my family and friends would be classified as eccentric,” says Posey in Episode 1.

So yes, everyone who wants to find Fenn’s – he posey’s – has to watch Gold & greed Again and again until you have devoted the entire program to memory.

I assume that is a way to market a documentary.

Is Gold & greed Worth observing?

You bet. Apart from that, as a launchpad for posey’s new treasure hunt, Gold & greed Has an appropriate task that passed the passion (or that I say, psychosis), to prompt thousands of people to step into the wilderness that was looking for wealth. Outside The Fenn Treasure Hunt reported a number of longform functions, news, analytical stories and podcast episodes between 2015 and 2023. But for everyone who is not familiar with the ordeal, Gold & greed serves as an ideal explaner.

The opening episode provides the profiling of Fenn, the retired pilot and art dealer from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to understand a considerable time and why he launched hunting in 2010.

Fenn, who died in 2020 at the age of 90, started the hunt with a poem that he was entitled ” The chase thrill. The poem contained extremely vague information (Start it where warm water continues and take it into the canyon not far, but too far to run, into the Brown house). About the place of the treasure, and these confusing instructions were open to extreme interpretations.

Gold & greed The strongest contribution to the reporting of Forrest Fenn shows how people are convinced that their interpretation of the poem is the right one.

A group, a family of self-proclaimed Wyoming Redneckes called Hurst family, believes that information describes the topography in the back forests near their trailer. Over the course of a decade, the Hurzts go one Sisyphean mission after the other and spend two years to dig out a massive boulder because they believe that the treasure chest is underneath.

Another hunter, a pilot from California Airline called Lou Boyer, makes one extreme internet dive after the other until he is convinced that the treasure is buried on a swath of private property along the Colorado-New Mexico border. Boyer takes his family into the area during different holidays, but is repeatedly thwarted by closed goals, plates tires and other disasters.

Cynthia Meachum, a pensioner, believes that the key to determining the treasure is to build up a personal relationship with Fenn, and over the years she increases notes from Fenn, who convince you that he is buried in Yellowstone National Park.

And then there is Posey, who approaches hunting with an analytical fanaticism that is equally impressive and worrying. He builds his own facial recognition software to analyze Fenn’s television interviews in the hope of decrypting notes from the mannerisms of the 85-year-old man. It also trains his dog to sniff out gold and bronze.

Like Meachum, Posey is convinced that the treasure is somewhere in Yellowstone, and during a trip he is looking for the area in which the box in 2020 was discovered by a medical student named Jack Stuf.

As I watched Gold & greed, I often thought of my youthful fascination while playing Pink Floyd’s Dark side of the moon During the gaze The wizard of OZ And watching the music creates a perfect soundtrack for the film. It took me years to see that this dynamic was simply caused by the fact that my brain instinctively made connections between the film and the album. Well, that and the pot smoke.

This psychological peculiarity, probably the rest of an evolutionary characteristic, gives the hunters who are looking for treasure for Fenn’s treasure. They see patterns everywhere and do not require a Bongrip to fall what they do and to walk into the forest. But there is also very human dynamics that drive them. Posey’s brother, who also hunts the treasure, dies from suicide, and the tragedy convinces Posey that he has to find him. The Hurst family is looking for gold to escape poverty and offer their disabled sister a better life.

And all groups admit that the spirit of the outdoor adventure also causes them to go to the hinterland to look for gold. Despite the rather inappropriate elements of the Fenn Hunt – more than a few crazy persecuted fenn and his family, and one even broke into his house – even broke into his house – – –Gold & greed argues that this spirit of exploring outdoors has made the ordeal worth. Whether you believe that this conclusion is entirely with you.

What Gold & greed The director has to say

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Gold & greed The director and executive producer Jared McGilliard, who gave me the background story about how the film came together.

Outside: Did you consider that the documentary also serves as a launch pad for Justin Posey’s new treasure hunt?

McGilliard: Justin announces that he has hidden a treasure in this series could be the first page of his new treasure hunt, but in my opinion it is also the last page of his story that is looking for Forrest Fenn’s Schatz. My focus was to tell Justin’s story intimate and truthfully from the start to finish. Not taking up his new treasure hunt at the end of this series would not have fully accepted the true sheet of its history … and the effects that Forrest and his treasure had on Justin’s life.

They selected four different groups of Fenn Hunters to profile them. What led you to everyone?

The common ingredient was that they were all well obsessed. They had searched for years and everyone had ups and downs in their experiences. With everyone they had this first chapter in which they go out there, and over time they go deeper and hunting is more important – – – –I will solve the poem. I didn’t want to tell stories on surface levels, I wanted to find stories where there were missions and high emotions. Tragedy, beauty, adventure. I was also looking for a wide range of socio -economic aspects, so I was able to show which find the treasure really meant for her. And finally I wanted people with different strategies. Since this is Netflix, it has to be a fun trip. You want the audience to understand various topics and the root for you.

What have you learned about the human condition when you follow these groups?

One thing that is in the foreground is that we create all of our different versions of the truth and outdo everything else. People had these ideas about the poem that this could not only be a coincidence, although the poem is so vague that it could literally fit anywhere. I was able to leave my own back door and find connections in the forest behind my house. The wonderful thing is that people made these amazing memories, but letting go of the thing was almost impossible.

I have to imagine that other filmmakers followed this project. How did you get it?

I would say relationships helped me. I spent a year to create deep relationships with these topics. When the Fenn family got in touch with us and I flew to Santa Fe, they wanted to know what was important to me with the story and I was able to tell them. I can tell a story that is not available and one that will understand the general audience. I have the level of trust and depth with the topics and I can cope with the story with care. I know that it also set up other companies than we set up our film. But we had invested in these topics.

What do you hope that the audience learns from the film?

We often only think about the result: be it a victory or a loss. I have the treasure or didn’t. But these people have so many victories and losses during their trip and they bring them together. For this reason, the Hurst family alone – the woman almost leaves the family. You negotiate your house, and if you come to the end and don’t find the treasure, say that it saved your life because you gave you a purpose. Cynthia Meechum does not regret it. Each of these people went out there and none of them came back and kept a box of treasure, but his life was changed for the better. When I think about why Forrest did, it was the case that people dream and adventure and find a new side of themselves.