He claimed to have solved 100 of them in a six-month period, according to a 2000 Scientific American article. Danny Johnson received an emailwe cant say from whom without permission, and so far we dont have itthat begins, Please see attached file Sir Danny. Thats followed by a few cryptic pieces of adviceenhanced by the apparent English-as-a-second-language writing: Protect this hill with all your might and power Find the Twin Oaks on the mountain side., And then: Castleton Johnson deserves recognition for this., Castleton Johnson? A good listener, he revealed little about himself. Buzz McClain November 13, 2020. Blf hloevw gsv xrksvi. The buried 6 feet is one clue to go on- I dont think the phrase was given as a puzzle to solve.but since that is all we have, then it is worth some thought.and sort of is. As the convertibles black fabric top pulls back, the street sign in front of me comes into view. In the second cryptogram, the original cipher errors are highlighted in red. Ive written dozens of stories on lost treasures, Bigfoot, ghost stories, and all manner of mostly unbelievable paranormal oddities. The two other men left a few days later bound for Richmond, but Beale remained through the winter. So, what if the friend who received the cypher couldnt figure out what to do with it and created a forgery with the other two cyphers because Beale never returned. Instead, it contained sheets of paper covered with seemingly incomprehensible numbers. We didnt find a clue, but we enjoyed our time., Her bottom line? Visitors come from all over the world to experience the Blue Ridge Parkway, Peaks of Otter and Smith Mountain Lake, and also to see the National D-Day Memorial, she says. Nearly two years later, during the winter of 1822, Thomas Beale returned to the Washington Hotel, where Robert Moriss welcomed him. I don't know how to post on the form, but if someone will get in touch, I will send you a map of the location and you can post it. Remaining hidden since the 1820s, the riches are described in a ciphered document which was decoded in the late 1870s. Words 509 and 510 of the modified text ("mean time") are counted as two words, despite being shown as one word. So there is gold in Bedford, and you can take it home in six-packs. WebThe Secret of Beale's Treasure by Joe Nickell* If the Beale Papers are to be believed, American history should be re-written. Beale used a version of United States Declaration of Independence slightly different from the original, and made mistakes in numbering it. "Although some have slammed the door and called it all a hoax, or merely a fun tale, because the story has some inconsistencies and questionable actions, the door seems never able to be tightly shut," explains Jenny Kile. The lack of clear images of the original ciphers, combined with the large quantity of numerals, has led to numerals being misprinted or omitted in many sources. While visiting, I myself, wanted to stroll through a few church grounds and graveyards. The teacher gave the class the second Beale cipher and a copy of the Declaration of Independence and told us to figure it out. There have been many attempts to break the remaining cipher(s). New information will be on display hereasas Answer: Well what do you know? He asked Morriss to open the box on that year if he never heard from Beale again. For reasons unexplained, Morriss didn't break the lock and open the box until 23 years later, in 1845. I think youre right about not hiding it in a cave where they may be used by locals. But Johnson says hes never been sure one way or the other. Its a pretty serious hobbylately, hes invested in gear to help him search for treasure under watera hobby that even sent him to Colorados Rocky Mountains in search of the famed Forrest Fenn treasure. In 1817, a group of thirty young, affluent, and well-educated men set out from Virginia to find adventure in the West. Be.ale Pape.rs, which pro..,ided all the information vVard knew about the Beale treasure. According to the story, the innkeeper opened the box 23years later, and then decades after that gave the three encrypted ciphertexts to a friend before he died. Sailing Stones of Death Valley Mystery Solved, Vikings Introduce Native American DNA To Iceland, Roswell Rock: Magnetic Anomaly Linked to Crop Circles. A survey of U.S. Census records in 1810 shows two persons named Thomas Beale, in Connecticut and New Hampshire. According to the pamphlet, Beale sent a letter from St.Louis in 1822. Ward was a Mason himself.[1]. Beale emphasized the boxs importance and requested the proprietor keep it safe until Beale returned. Since Im no Sherlock Holmes, I followed my thoughts and found some intriguing things with the numbers. But I certainly wouldnt choose another cave. While Goad pores over the papers and clippings, Thomson, a California transplant who has been at the museum for 13 years, gives me a tour of the multilevel institution while discussing the Beale phenomenon. According to reports from 1819-21, a gold rush brought treasure to Bedford County. Tourism, as you might expect, is an important local economic driver, with direct travel expenditures by visitors to Bedford exceeding $117 million in 2018, an increase over previous years. Well done Thomas J. Others believe the whole thing is a hoax. Beale registered simply as being from Virginia where exactly in the state, he didn't say and he never said anything about his family, or much of anything about himself at all. I would be afraid someone would dig it up to see who was buried there, and also, there may be more than one. She's the author of the book "Introduction to Codes and Ciphers, Plus 20 Famous Unsolved Codes, Ciphers, and Mysterious Writings," and is founder of the Mysterious Writings website. Dad said people talked to him about it, says Johnson. The story of the Beale Ciphers is a particularly peculiar mystery, to be sure, and many people who've researched it have concluded that it's probably just an elaborate 19th-century hoax. I was happy to find this taverns ruins and the exact location, because another line given in the decoded Beale Paper states the treasure is about four miles from Bufords. Love those Johnsons! And, potentially, the seeds of obsession. The second cipher can be decrypted fairly easily using a modified copy of the United States Declaration of Independence, but some editing is necessary. The differences are shown here as {alleged decipherment | actual decipherment}: I have deposited, in the county of Bedford, about four miles from Buford's, in an excavation or vault, six feet below the surface of the ground, the following articles, belonging jointly to the parties whose names are given in number {3, | three} herewith: The first deposit consisted of {one thousand | ten hundred} and fourteen pounds of gold, and {three thousand | thirty-} eight hundred and twelve pounds of silver, deposited {November, 1819 | Nov. eighteen nineteen}. [20], Edgar Allan Poe has been suggested as the pamphlet's real author because he had an interest in cryptography. He has no idea where the treasure is, and, in short, he hopes no one ever finds it, even if its there. ago Well, Beale never came back, and Morriss opened the box 23 years later and discovered notes and three sheets of hundreds of seemingly random numbers. Here's the story as laid out in the 1855 pamphlet, which was written by an anonymous author and published by a local newspaperman named J.B. Ward. Factoid: Bedford is Virginias fifth-largest county by population, with 79,000 residents. Maybe I will find a X marks the spot. It was not until 1845 that Morriss opened the box. 15 / 15. We leave the peak and head to the Bedford Museum and Genealogical Library to meet with Jennifer Thomson, genealogical librarian and education director. I dont think there is a treasure., It might say something. I emit a short gasp. It held only trouble and woe. Between 1819 and 1821, Thomas Beale buried a giant treasure in Virginia. Many of the old head stones on the grounds of this church are nameless and lost in time. So, maybe you have some insight on how to continue forward with this thought? 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. No church. associated withthe Beale Vault & ExcavationSitewithin Bedford County, Virginia. each page so that no difficulty will be had in finding them. His motto, Todays the day kept the belief and energy up for final discovery of the 1622 shipwrecked vessels treasures on July 20 th, 1985. Xlmtizgfozgrlmh zmw dv slkv blf vmqlbvw gsv kfaaov. Can you break it? The first time Beale arrived in Lynchburg, he buried half the treasure. As the value of these artifacts paid for time and equipment rental, the expedition broke even.[20]. Thomas Beales code. Bedford county line. Blame the excursion West on cognitive bias. He just states what he knows and gets on with it, which is probably why people have been consulting him about their suspicions about Beale for 50 years: He can be trusted. Fisher is famous for investing 16 years into the search for the shipwrecked Atocha. I just trashed the email. to the Beale Vaultwere entirely decoded from this cipher and no other.Beale's use of landmarks, the location of the 20 36 comments Add a Comment AutoModerator 7 mo. Welcome To The Beale Treasure Although he didnt find the treasure he brought to light previous clues and keep the hope of finding the treasure alive. Or as Forrest has said, contemplate the what ifs. This wealth allegedly had been amassed by one Thomas Jefferson Beale and his associates, who travelled into the American West during the period of roughly 1817-1823 and He interpreted the last two of 27 lines of code numbers to sort-of legibly read: Behold he haul len iron vault catacomb. The full text, as deciphered by this man, leads you to believe Thomas Beale buried the treasure in or near a cemetery with the intention of making the hole look like a grave. Its so interesting to talk to someone who is a true believer, he says. Or here is a referencehttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_mile. The friend, then using an edition of the United States Declaration of Independence as the key for a modified book cipher, successfully deciphered the second ciphertext which gave a description of the buried treasure. Fearing thieves were closing in on him, Beale headed back east to St. Louis, traded some of the gold for jewels, and then continued on to Virginia. Thanks Jenny for letting us stretch our imaginations. If I, along with others, agreed to hide a treasure in a cave we all thought was secret and then went there only to discover it being used by other people, I wouldnt say, well, lets go use that other cave. From the experience given on the first, I would be extremely cautious in thinking any other cave of the area is unknown and safe enough to hide a valuable treasure in. You just have to find itif its even there. The 50-cent publication thrilled the nation, and Ward pocketed substantial royalties. Look east to the cemetery, the British fellow wrote beneath one section of numbers. This is true for all three ciphers.[28]. The frequency of the solved cipher stays non-uniform. The pamphlet handles this by inserting "a" before "new government". Treasure Would be $93 Million in Today's Dollars One reason that the mystery still attracts treasure hunters is that if the buried fortune exists, by now it has grown to approximately $93 million in value, as journalist Buzz McClain calculated in a 2020 article in Northern Virginia magazine. Beale's second cryptogram (the deciphered one). The first deposit consisted of one thousand and fourteen pounds of gold, and three thousand eight hundred and twelve pounds of silver, deposited November, 1819. passing cemetery. To decrypt it, one finds the word corresponding to the number (e.g., the first number is 115, and the 115th word in the Declaration of Independence is "instituted"), and takes the first letter of that word (in the case of the example, "I"). Theyve risked jail time. [24] In 1843 he used a cryptogram as plot device in his short story "The Gold-Bug". A document in the archives of no less than the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland was sent to William F. Friedman, who lived on North George Mason Drive in Arlington, from Alfred Perry of Madison Heights, Virginia. The other slight changes probably have no consequences. Kovzhv wl mlg ulitvg gl ivmvd blfi hfyhxirkgrlm gl Mligsvim Eritrmrz Nztzarmv. I find time to post additional pictures ordocumentation concerning our discovery and work. *Some PagesUnder Construction* Such an action would have changed everything for the region. 2016-2020 Cape Fear Publishing Co. Inc. The legend of Thomas Jefferson Bealewho is rumored to have buried $93 million worth of gold and silver in what is now Central Virginias wine country 200 years agohas led many treasure hunters on a wild chase over the past two centuries. The "information" that there is buried treasure in Bedford County has stimulated many expeditions with shovels, and other implements of discovery, looking for likely spots. (Cue the evil laugh.). A lot of people just shake their heads and say the believers are crazy, Johnson says. This page was last edited on 23 March 2023, at 03:50. Some of the best cryptoanalysts in the world have devoted their time to trying to break the code. A translation of the Cipher from the actual Declaration of Independence shows in fact very poor spelling: "I haie deposoted in the copntt ol bedoort aboup four miles from bulords in an epcaiation or iault six fest below the surlact of thh gtound ths fotlowing articiss beaonging joiotlt to the partfes whosl namfs ate giiet in number thrff httewith.."[citation needed]. Shes explored the graveyards of Bedford several times, scouting everything she and her husband could find within a 4-mile radius of Bufords Tavern. And who knows for sure? After driving for miles along country lanes and gravel roads, we reach Cool Spring Church, on a mountaintop, with a small graveyard. Additionally, as Schmeh notes, there are a few, slightly different versions of the Declaration of Independence. The buried six feet below the surface description for where the treasure was hidden was decoded from the 2nd Beale Paper. Dvoo dszg wl blf pmld? Over the years, the Beale mystery has drawn attention to the region via international media outlets. Beale! Unfortunately, missing data from three other states made this search fruitless. Just a peaceful resting place. So I agree there shouldnt be any cryptic clues within the Papers once all of them are decoded. In the early 1800s, Thomas J. Beale came across an abandoned mine full of gold, silver, and jewels in Santa Fe, New Mexico. After a few miles, I pull over to put the top down and enjoy the afternoon sun before heading to the country roads that will eventually take me to hateful Interstate 81. One of the most well known searchers for the Beale Treasure was Mel Fisher. It worked for the second cipher. The directionsto thevault . It drives them to repeated attempts to break the code and find the treasure. The pamphlet's numbering has eleven words between the labels for 630 and 640. after word 677 ("foreign") and before word 819 ("valuable") one word must be removed (probably "their"). Aside from the basic implausibility of the story, as Dunin explains, there are plenty of clues that indicate the Beale treasure is a hoax. Morriss occasionally thought about the box, but he waited until 1845 to break open the lock since the key to the ciphers never arrived. 5 Treasures People Are Looking for Right Now, Divers Find Roman-era Sunken Treasure in Shipwreck Off Israel, Wikimedia Commons (CC By-SA 3.0)/HowStuffWorks, Treasure Would be $93 Million in Today's Dollars, Special Offer on Antivirus Software From HowStuffWorks and TotalAV Security, The Beale Papers Containing Authentic Statements Regarding the Treasure Buried in 1819 and 1821 near Bufords, in Bedford County, Virginia, and Which Has Never Been Discovered, Introduction to Codes and Ciphers, Plus 20 Famous Unsolved Codes, Ciphers, and Mysterious Writings. Before we depart, Johnson gives us a sheaf of papers with possible cipher translations. There hasnt been any clue saying, here I am. One of the three ciphers which has been decoded specifies that the Beale Treasure is buried six feet below the surface. This of course is the common depth for a grave. $200,000 worth of jewels. Copyright 2001 SWN Despite the Beale Papers' unproven veracity, treasure hunters have not been deterred from trying to find the vault. [10] Other questions remain about the authenticity of the pamphlet's account. [20], Additionally, a Cheyenne legend exists about gold and silver being taken from the West and buried in mountains in the East, dating from roughly 1820. The pamphlet's background story has several implausibilities, and is based almost entirely on circumstantial evidence and hearsay. In 2014, the National Geographic TV show The Numbers Game referred to the Beale ciphers as one of the strongest passwords ever created. [update] Comprising three ciphertexts, the first (unsolved) text describes the location, the second (solved) ciphertext accounts the content of the treasure, and the third (unsolved) lists the names of the treasure's owners and their next of kin. After all, who would bring back a fortune in gold, silver and jewels from New Mexico and bury it somewhere in the rolling hills and ridges of central Virginia? William Poundstone, an American author and skeptic, had stylometric analysis performed on the pamphlet for his 1983 book Biggest Secrets, and found that Poe's prose is significantly different from the grammatical structure used by the author who wrote The Beale Papers. The first letter of word 95 ("inalienable") is always used as a "u" ("unalienable"). On Porters Mountain is the Mountain View Church. May 15, 2020 #44 franklin said: Since you say there is a 33% does not support the solution. However, as I watched the episdoe, I noticed something intriguing. Ward is thus not "the friend". Beale entrusted a box containing the encrypted messages to a local innkeeper named Robert Morriss and then disappeared, never to be seen again. Morriss died the next year. In my youth I used to travel to many areas of interest with pops and look for relics. Robert Morriss, as represented in the pamphlet, says he was running the Washington Hotel in 1820. It has never been found. The vault is roughly lined with stone, and the vessels rest on solid stone, and are covered with others. I think its probably not a clue at all they didnt need one. Yes, Danny Johnsons Peaks of Otter Winery is inside the 4-mile radius. decoding secretly hidden directions located within Cipher One of the Locality Cipher. million, the treasure's value today, and the honor of twentieth century technology and brains. Maybe the only place to guarantee it would not be found. Upon realizing the cave idea was not the best decision to conceal treasure in, they had to rethink and ask themselves, where can we hide this so no one will disturb it? A Supposed Grave, six feet under the ground, seems like a great place. Beales letters contain words that were not in the English lexicon in 1820. [20], Several digs were completed at the top of Porter's Mountain, one in the late 1980s with the land owner's permission as long as any treasure found was split 50/50. Related: Top Ten Lost Treasure of the World. It described the treasure as 2921 pounds of gold, 5100 pounds of silver, and $1,500,000 in precious gems packed in iron pots and covered in stone. Now, following this thought I explored further and counted the total numbers per line and translated that number to a letter of the alphabet interstignly enough the lines worked out to mostly R S P and one Q. They spent the next two years excavating the gold as well as some silver they found. Thats Jenny Kile talking, and it seems to make as much sense as anything else. The census listed two males with the last name Beale. [26], However, research and facts debunk Poe's authorship. BealeSolved.Com In letter that he left behind, Beale explained that he and companions had ventured west to New Mexico in the late 1810s on a hunting expedition and while there, somehow had discovered a gold mine. In this letter, Beale told Morriss the box contained papers upon which the fortunes of many men depended. The area has been repeatedly explored through the years, and possible locations for the Beale Treasure investigated. A popular place at the time. If we begin at the beginning, we have to go 200 years in the past, but instead, lets go three-and-a-half hours south, in the present, to start this adventure. https://bisonwoman.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/adventures-in-geocaching-it-was-a-cold-snowy-day/, If you do a lot of detecting then this is a good tip! However, this turned out to be unsuitable. He has found the treasure in Bedford County, Virginia. Please do not forget to renew your subscription to Northern Virginia Magazine. It tells us it is straightforward. I wouldnt say I was looking for anything specific, but only exploring the potential; Could a treasure be buried under the surface here? Mysterious Writings: Featured Contributor Segment and Update, Forgotten History Hunts: Featured Contributor Segment, Privacy Policy, Disclaimer and Affiliate Disclosure. Beale left a locked box with innkeeper Robert Morriss at Bufords Tavern in Montvale, adjacent to Bedford, with orders to keep it for 10 years and open it if he didnt come back. Thomson has noticed over time that there are three types of Beale fans: the ones who want the money, the ones who just want to solve the mystery and the ones who want to know if any of it is true. Aug 26, 2020 169 92 San Antonio, Texas Primary Interest: All Treasure Hunting Aug 27, 2020 Thread starter #6 Common guys James did put in a lot of time into the Beale letters history. Congratulations and we hope you enjoyed the puzzle. Since 1885, hundreds of treasure hunters have descended to the Montvale, Virginia area, which used to be Buford. I like those the best, she says. Sometimes I kind of believe it, then I dont, he says. The legend begins in the early 1800s. Ward, whose 1885 pamphlet brought the Beale Papers to light. Many think so. The second was made December, 1821, and consisted of nineteen hundred and seven pounds of gold, and twelve hundred and eighty-eight pounds of silver; also jewels, obtained in St. Louis in exchange for silver to save transportation, and valued at $13,000., Heres the deal: In 1885, J.B. Ward published a substantial and anonymously written pamphlet called The Beale Papers, Containing Authentic Statements Regarding the Treasure Buried in 1819 and 1821 Near Bufords, in Bedford County, Virginia, and Which Has Never Been Recovered.. that is of course if it isnt a hoax or just a written tale given for entertainment. [27], Another method to check the validity of the ciphers is to investigate some statistical aspects in different number bases. His 7,000-word exhumation is as exhaustive and comprehensive as it gets. Other hotel tenants found him to be popular, especially the women. 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