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Last summer, 53-year-old Jeff Murphy was hiking in Yellowstone National Park when he disappeared. Park investigators found his body on June 9, where Murphy had fallen 500 feet from Turkey Pen Peak, after accidentally stepping into a chute. But he wasn't on just any hike. He was looking for a treasure box of gold and jewels worth up to $2 million, buried somewhere in the Rocky Mountains by an eccentric millionaire named Forrest Fenn. Fenn, an art dealer and millionaire in his 80s, lives in Santa Fe, N.M. In his self-published memoir, Fenn included a poem that supposedly leads to...

The Northern Californian couple who found $10 million worth of gold coins on their land could have broken California Law for failing to report their stunning discovery to police, it emerged today. ..... But, according to Californian Law, the couple should have declared their findings to the police within a ‘reasonable time’ of finding it. The Californian Civil Code, sub-section 2080, also states that a notice must go in the local paper if the haul is worth more than $250. Usually, breaking the Civil Code isn’t an arrestable offense but punished with a fine. ..... But, according to one Gold...

WWII fighter plane hailed the 'aviation equivalent of Tutankhamun's Tomb' found preserved in the Sahara A Second World War aeroplane that crash landed in the Sahara Desert before the British pilot walked to his death has been found almost perfectly preserved 70 years later. Most of its cockpit instruments are intact and it still had it guns and ammunition before they were seized by the Egyptian military. There are also signs of the makeshift camp the pilot made alongside the fuselage. No human remains have been found but it is thought the pilot may lie within a 20 mile radius...

By Stephanie Akin Staff Writer METHUEN -- A day after they were rushed by limousine to tell their tale of buried treasure on national television, two men were charged with stealing the money they said they found in their back yard. Timothy Crebase, 24, of 49 Sorrento Ave. in Methuen and Barry Billcliff, 27, of 307 Hanover St., Apt. 2, in Manchester, N.H., were arrested last night after Crebase confessed they found the 1,800 antique bills, with an estimated value of more than $100,000, in a Newbury barn they were working on in early April. Now, police are trying to...

It's everyone's fantasy, a dream we always wake up from, tormented that the images of our sleep are just illusions. That is, finding buried treasure. One morning three weeks ago, such a fairy tale suddenly came true for Barry Villcliff and Tim Crebase, two friends trying to dig up a small tree in Crebase's yard in Methuen, they said. Using a spade to get at the roots, Crebase heard a thud, and about a foot down, he saw he had hit a piece of wood. The 23-year-old roofer then realized the wood was part a 2-foot-wide box. He kept digging...