Shawn Patrick

The Chase We Seek Shawn Patrick

What would happen if you were toying around with a ten-year-old mystery, trying to solve clues to a real life treasure hunt worth millions, and all of a sudden the dominoes started falling, one after another until an "X" marked the spot? Then suppose you discover that you and the man who hid that treasure, although a generation apart, had so much in common, you seemed to be cut from the same cloth. What if you felt like you could read his thoughts, and started seeing hidden messages within his writings? That's exactly what happened to me. What came next was a DaVinci Code - like race for truth. Did I find it? The truth, that is. You decide. This is the story of my pursuit of the Forrest Fenn treasure that had been hidden high up in the Rocky Mountains for ten long years. Follow along as I peel back the cryptic layers of Forrest's memoir, The Thrill of the Chase, and discover much more than gold and jewels hidden inside. Get a glimpse into the mind of an ex-fighter pilot become eccentric millionaire art dealer as I decipher the hidden messages that he left for us to find. Discover Forrest's true motivation for secreting millions in gold and jewels as you connect his journey through life with his realization that what fuels our fire is the thrill of the chase. I will take you boots-on-the-ground with me to a spot so special to one man, he wanted to take his final breath there. How he chose that spot will be talked about for generations to come. More than 350,000 people engaged in the hunt. In the end, there could be only one lucky finder. Or was it the other way around? Was the finder of Fenn's gold the lesser? Did he open Pandora's Box? Only time will tell. What's for certain is that thousands of lives have been changed for the better and whose memories of The Chase will not be forgotten. Perhaps the real treasure was found by many.