$1M TREASURE FOUND, SAYS MAN WHO HID IT

Ending a decade-long saga that has seen some treasure hunters die and sent thousands of others on frenzied, fruitless searches, Forrest Fenn has announced that the $1-million trove he hid in the Rocky Mountains has been found.

Fenn, a Santa Fe, N.M., antiquities collector, announced on his website on Sunday that a poem in his 2010 memoir, The Thrill of the Chase, had finally led an unidentified person to the treasure, which has been pursued by an estimated 350,000 people.

Fenn, 89, has said he hid the treasure to encourage people to get into nature, but as many as five deaths have been linked to the pursuit of the bronze chest, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican.

Fenn has not revealed where the treasure was found, but said the person sent him an image to prove it was indeed discovered. However, Fenn wouldn’t give the Santa Fe New Mexican the image, and not everyone believes his version of events.

Meanwhile, Chicago attorney Barbara Andersen told the Santa Fe New Mexican she found the treasure first, but her computer was then hacked. She is challenging the find in court.

“He stole my solve,” she said of the unnamed man. “He followed and cheated me to get the chest.”