Eric Ashby
Like many of his contemporaries, Eric Ashby relocated to Colorado in 2016. He planned on staying there until he found Forrest’s treasure chest or someone else claimed it. So, up the mountain he went, but for several months, nobody heard a peep from Eric.
On July 28, 2017, his body was found in the Arkansas River. The last anyone had seen him was on exactly one month prior, mounting his raft and preparing to 10 to 15 miles upstream. Sadly, the raft overturned, and he couldn’t combat the rushing water. Nobody could’ve known that the physically fit man in his early 30s would’ve perished in such a tragic way.