No, it is not true.

Despite the apparent certainty of other repliers, there is no definitive answer to this question. I know of no documented evidence that anyone has ever found the end of a rainbow, so who is to say what may be found there? The optical physics of rainbows is relatively well known. They are a--sadly--transient phenomenon that depends largely on the perspective of the viewer. (This can easily be demonstrated with a garden hose set on a light spray. With the sun behind you at the right angle, you can usually see a rainbow quite clearly. Yet someone on the other side of the spray will not see it at all.) The obvious lesson is that if you change your perspective enough, you just may find that fabled pot of gold.

No. As far as I know, you can never find the end of a rainbow because when you travel along it, it goes along with you.

No because it is impossible to reach the end of the rainbow

Maybe if you're tripping on acid or believe in fairy tales!

It's a metaphor for two things. One is, after the thunderstorms in our lives, we are sometimes blessed not only by the sun coming out again, but by a beautiful rainbow which wouldn't be there if it haden't rained. The other is, don't ever get to the point where you try finding the pot of gold, or it will always be gone by the time you think you get there.

As a matter of fact a rainbow is a complete circle if you view it from above. So technically there is no end.

Researchers probably took some hi-fi cameras on an airplane, then flew above a mountainside thunderstorm then saw a rainbow (which wasn't a full circle that time, since a mountain blocks it). Then they zoomed in their cameras to the end of the rainbow, and took pictures on the closest zoom. Lo & Behold, there was just bare rock; no shining vat of gold!

Of course you can find gold at the end of a rainbow! You can also see Elvis at the mall every Friday night :)

Once when conditions were exactly right, the sun was low and to my left and I was moving past a woods with an open field between me and the trees, I could see exactly--EXACTLY--where the rainbow ended, and could have stopped and walked toward the specific tree that it ended on. Not being superstitious, I didn't bother; but this was a highly unusual circumstance. Normally, because of the laws of optics, a rainbow will always stay at exactly the same distance away from you. The reason is that rainbows are formed by light going through water droplets at an exact angle with relation to your eye, and as you move ten feet toward it you're not seeing the same rainbow--you're seeing the water droplets from ten feet farther back. By the time you get to the back of the cloud, no more rainbow--and if you turn around to see what the back of it looks like, you'll just see the sun, because the rainbow is the only phenomenon in nature that has only one side.

you can go through the end of a rainbow! We (two of us) found this out today. It was extremely large and the entire car turned yellow and green. We have witnesses as well. So if anyone tells you that you cant... we are proof you can

Yeah, a pot of golden sunlight, oops meant a lot of golden sunlight. Besides, if you did find a pot of gold and take it you'd end up with an angry leprechaun after you. Become a leprechaun and you can have all the gold you want at the end of rainbows.

It is amazing to me that so many people proclaim that it is impossible to see the end of a rainbow, when those of us who have seen it know that it certainly IS possible to see the rainbow's end. There are so many skeptics in this world and it is sad that many do not have an open mind, simply because they, themselves, have not witnessed it. I can say with 100% certainty that it is possible, as I saw a rainbow's end with my own eyes approximately 12 years ago. It came down right to the ground in front of a large tree approximately half a mile away from our farm in the southeast Nebraska countryside. My own husband has doubted my story all of these years, and I would like to be able to scientifically prove this to him. I believe explanation # 12 is the closest I have ever come to seeing it explained in a manner that made sense to me. If there are any other scientific minds out there that can provide a layman's explanation, it would be greatly appreciated. I do know that my sighting was an experience beyond description, filled with joy, awe, and wonder, and one I shall never forget. As for the pot of gold--I only wish I had had a shovel at the time!

My research team never found it.

I think there's a pot of Acapulco gold pot at the beginning of some rainbows.

maybe, you can't get to the end of a rainbow though. in order to see it, you have to be a certain number of degrees away from the sun and the rainbow. i don't know exactly but i remember it from when i was learning about prisms a long time ago. :)

No, when you get to the end of the rainbow, all you find is an empty pot and a leprechaun with a credit card!

there is no end to a rainbow......

I saw exactly where the end of a rainbow landed a few weeks ago, but I didn't bother going to see if there was a pot of gold there...

No it is a light show and the srory is one that should not be told to childern because they will believe that crappalo.

I don't know, I've never found the end. I walked and walked and I'm still broke as a joke. :(