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The story of the three ciphertexts originates from an 1885 pamphlet called The Beale Papers, detailing treasure being buried by a man named Thomas J. Beale in a secret location in Bedford County, Virginia, in about 1820. Beale entrusted a box containing the encrypted messages to a local innkeeper named Robert Morriss and then disappeared, never ...
28 maj 2021 · BEDFORD COUNTY, Va. — When you look up into the mountains around western Bedford County, you might be looking at $100 million in gold, silver, and jewels, and not even know it. That’s because of a mystery that involves intrigue, secret codes, and a treasure possibly buried by a man named Thomas Beale.
6 wrz 2020 · Somewhere in the green hills of Bedford County in southwestern Virginia, lies a buried treasure worth over an estimated 60 million dollars. Named after Thomas J. Beale, who purportedly buried the trove, the Beale Treasure of gold and silver and jewels has languished in the ground for two centuries.
4 cze 2018 · One Pennsylvania steelworker made 36 trips to Bedford County before asserting that he found an empty treasure vault under an abandoned icehouse.
13 lis 2020 · The legend of Thomas Jefferson Beale—who is rumored to have buried $93 million worth of gold and silver in what is now Central Virginia’s wine country 200 years ago—has led many treasure hunters on a wild chase over the past two centuries.
18 maj 2011 · In 1885, James B. Ward published The Beale Papers, a pamphlet containing three coded messages, the solution of which, Ward claimed, would lead to sizeable buried treasure in Bedford...
18 wrz 2023 · At the core of this fascinating story lies the Beale papers, a trio of encoded numerical messages, allegedly revealing the location of a vast buried treasure of untold riches somewhere in Bedford County, Virginia.