Forget the trend of "going to the sea to find Truong My Lan's treasure", thousands of people went to the mountains to dig for gold

After the trial of defendant Truong My Lan - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Van Thinh Phat Group and his accomplices ended, social network users raised the trend of "inviting each other to go out to sea to search for Truong's 673 trillion treasure." My Lan".

In fact, 673 trillion VND is the amount the Court required defendant Truong My Lan to compensate for damages, not any treasure owned by this person.

However, in recent days, from Facebook to TikTok, images and status lines related to "Truong My Lan's treasure" have appeared densely.

Currently, many netizens are inviting each other to go out to sea to find treasure. However, in real life, there were thousands of people who went to the mountains to search for "gold" for a decade.

This is a famous treasure hunt story in America. According to Smithsonian magazine, in 2010, millionaire Forrest Fenn caused a stir after announcing he had hidden a chest containing a lot of gold, jewelry, and gems, worth at least 1 million USD (more than 25 billion VND). in the Rocky Mountains, in the western United States.

"If I die tomorrow, the location of this treasure will follow me to the ground," Mr. Forrest Fenn once said.

Millionaire Forrest Fenn once shared that his treasure contained about 10 kg of gold, with 25 American Gold Eagle coins and Double Eagle coins, many gold artifacts, emeralds and jewelry. In particular, the treasure chest alone weighs up to 9 kg.

For many years, hundreds of thousands of people have "crazy" searched for this mysterious chest, based on clues that Mr. Fenn wrote in his self-published memoir. Accordingly, the clue is said to lie in Mr. Fenn's 24-line poem.

According to CNBC, Mr. Fenn once said: "Read and re-read the clues in my poem and study the map of the Rocky Mountains. Try to combine both of these things."

Mr. Fenn began storing gold, antiques and gems in the chest after he was diagnosed with cancer in 1988. Initially, he planned to take the chest up into the mountains to bury it next to him. But because he later recovered, he kept the chest in the basement at home for many years. CNBC reported that a couple confirmed that they saw valuable items in a chest in this basement.

Regarding the reason for hiding the treasure in the mountain, Mr. Forrest Fenn said, he decided to hide the chest and announce it for everyone to hunt when the great recession seriously affected the US economy and the world. happened in 2009. He explained: "A lot of people lost their jobs. Despair filled the headlines. So I just wanted to give people a little hope, something that to believe in".

Besides, Mr. Fenn wants through this treasure hunt, many people will get out of the city and live closer to nature, going out to explore more together.

Unexpected! After Mr. Forrest Fenn shared about the treasure and suggested clues, many people were truly caught up in the treasure hunt. Not only did they exchange hypothetical treasure locations on forums, but they also sent many emails to Mr. Fenn.

Mr. Fenn admitted he used to receive 100 emails a day. He even had to call the police because of the appearance of unwanted or threatening guests.

In fact, there were many calls for him to end the treasure hunt. But Mr. Fenn refused and revealed some more clues on his personal blog to help everyone participating in this quest stay safe.

The value of the million-dollar treasure has caused hundreds of thousands of people to brave danger to search for treasure in remote and dangerous mountains in the western United States. Some people even quit their jobs and spent all their capital to find clues about where the treasure was hidden. Some believe that this is essentially just a scam and even want to sue Mr. Forrest Fenn.

However, despite the surrounding noise, this treasure search has lasted for nearly a decade, with an estimated more than 350,000 participants.

The race only ended when the identity of the person who found the treasure was revealed in 2020. This person was Jack Stuef, a medical student from Michigan State. Mr. Shioh Forrest Old, grandson of millionaire Forrest Fenn, confirmed that this student was the one who found the treasure.

Young man picked up a "block of gold" after Truong My Lan's trend of finding treasure? Hoàng Phúc1 year agoRecently, social networking sites are buzzing with the hashtag "Finding Treasure" or "Going to sea to find treasure", actually this is a keyword inspired by the character Gold D. Roger in the famous series One Piece.