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. First, a budding treasure hunter could search for the right key. I believe I found where it could possibly be, but it means trespassing on federal land and a National Monument! Instead, it contained sheets of paper covered with seemingly incomprehensible numbers. The pamphlet's numbering has eleven words between the labels for 670 and 680. The Beale Ciphers are unique because they have never been solved. They spent 18months mining thousands of pounds of precious metals, which they then charged Beale with transporting to Virginia and burying in a secure location. In March of 1822, Beale called the innkeeper to his room. Include the text [Transcript] in your reply. (With this in mind, I have an idea about cipher 1 & 3, although Im sure the NSA & CIA have already tried these two works since theyre so obvious. Recently, I discovered an apparently no-longer-maintained web site Beale Ciphers Solved which documented not only that the other documents in the Beale Ciphers were successfully deciphered (sometime in the late 1990's by Daniel Cole, now deceased), but showed what was found at the location described by the deciphered location document. No. The pamphlet handles this by inserting "a" before "new government". These frequencies are not uniformly distributed some digits are more common than others. Ditto for the third page, which listed the members of the group and gave their relatives' names and addresses. [25] But with mounting debts, Poe left for Boston in April 1827. The story has been the subject of multiple television documentaries, such as the UK's Mysteries series, a segment in the seventh special of Unsolved Mysteries; and the 2011 Declaration of Independence episode of the History Channel TV show Brad Meltzer's Decoded. THIS COULD BE EDGAR ALLAN POES SWISS BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER Which i will claim,for,to go with the gold,silver jewels,and valuable iron cooking pots. area,construction details,talley ofthe pots plus contentsand thefinaldirections leading First, these are enciphered documents which have stumped the world for almost 200 years. *Some PagesUnder Construction* I refer to the story that someone found an empty underground chamber in the area. Nickell also presents linguistic evidence demonstrating that the documents could not have been written at the time alleged (words such as "stampeding", for instance, are of later vintage). The Beale ciphers, also referred to as the Beale Papers, are a set of three ciphertexts, one of which allegedly states the location of a buried treasure of gold, silver and jewels estimated to be worth over $63 million USD as of September 2011. Copyright 2001 SWN While the site posts the claim of how the documents were deciphered, it provides no details. 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}. The analysis is based on a permutation, Dr.Clarence Williams, a researcher at the Library of Congress, in 1934. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Is this image above supposed to be the solution to the "Beale Ciphers"? to the Beale Vaultwere entirely decoded from this cipher and no other.Beale's use of landmarks, the location of the The description of the vault says that it is not very big (seven feet at one point), and the site writers claim that it is empty. 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. Raised eyebrow. And that's a bit of a problem as all crypto subReddits (and both of those are crypto or crypto-related subReddits) have disinformation sown into then by various agencies of various governments that do not like private cryptographers. Thats what any treasure hunter worth his salt would do! Perhaps it included the key to his locked box too. Thanks for your post, u/Elisha_Dushku! Breaking the cipher(s) may depend on random chance (as, for instance, stumbling upon a book key if the two remaining ciphertexts are actually book ciphers); so far, even the most skilled cryptanalysts who have attempted them have been defeated. You can get a pretty good background on the Wiki entry and a lot of research material, including Ion Idriess authoritive Lasseters last ride, is still available and very worthwhile for people like us who are getting to be a tad too old for the hunt. So what do you suppose all these people did during that time? Beale Papers - The Cipher Foundation Beale Papers Around 1885, a short pamphlet was published in Lynchburg, Tennessee: it contained a story about a young man called Thomas Beale who had allegedly deposited a sizeable treasure (worth approx $63m in 2011) in two deposits in 1819 and 1821. As you can see we have "played the game to the end". [There was] no evidence save the word of the unknown author of the pamphlet that he ever had the papers."[11]. Not to mention the unlikely case scenario of thirty Virginian settlers packing off out west, two thousand land miles at least through mostly unexplored, inhospitable terrain, inhabited only by wild comanche injuns and their even more hostile Comanchero trading pals. It was thrilling to read about the effort, and see pictures of the site described. I tried to get there anyway, but couldnt for various reasons. [31], For the geographic code classification system, see, Statistical analysis of the last digits in the Beale Ciphers. Elonka Dunin, a video game developer, writer and cryptographer, and her colleague, German computer scientist and cryptographer Klaus Schmeh, are co-authors of the 2020 book "Codebreaking: A Practical Guide." The 26th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Technology is so SaaS-y, it's not modeling the real world. The directions to the vault area, construction details, talley of the pots plus contents and the final directions leading to the Beale Vault were entirely decoded from this cipher and no other. "Does the Beale Ciphers' Code of Numbers Detail Hidden Treasure?" The two remaining, and supposedly now-decoded ciphers are a little suspicious. If he got that letter, he would have immediately known where the treasure was and collected it himself. 11+2= 22= V THIS = 90, excavation site andhismethod of concealement for both the treasure and the cipherswereabsolutely ingenious. 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. 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. Ward, in 1885. Basically, they claimed to have found avault similar to what is described, but it was empty of any treasure. A small pre-dig mpeg video clip is located below..left click to open or right click to download! His analysis of the writing style showed that Beale was almost certainly James B. Who would care about paying taxes or handshakes with the Secretary of the Treasury (argument by unverifiable authority), or that he had no heirs? The pamphlet's numbering has eleven words between the labels for 240 and 250. after word 466 ("houses") and before word 495 ("be") ten words must be removed (probably "He has refused for a long time after such dissolutions"). The treasure was packed in iron pots with lids and buried in a stone-lined vault. They claimed to have been tracking a massive herd north in May about 250 300 miles from their starting point to a location near to where South Park of sitcom fame, is situated today, which is where they allegedly came upon their gold reefI cant imagine that buffalo (bison) of the numbers suggested would have been encountered anywhere within two to three hundred miles of the hunters location during any part of their trek. Make an official claim to it, pay any taxes, etc, so that ownership of the treasure is protected officially. Moriss stored it away and forgot about it until he received a letter from Beale, dated May 9, 1822. since carbon dated to 1421 (joking fellas). The group also instructed Beale to give some "perfectly reliable person" instructions on how to find the treasure, so that in the event they died during their adventures, their families could be given the fortune. I spent twenty years trying to identify where the Lost Dutchmans mine was, as I live close by in Mesa, Arizona. In 2015 the UKTV series Myth Hunters (also known as Raiders of the Lost Past) devoted one of its season 3 episodes to the topic. The Complex Ciphers Have Been Decoded And Reveal Much More Than Many Thought Possible! In 2014, the National Geographic TV show The Numbers Game referred to the Beale ciphers as one of the strongest passwords ever created. The technique is based on the well-known method of cryptanalysis called "probable word." In this case, success depends on several factors: (1) whether B1 is genuine, (2) whether B1 is a book cipher, similar to No. [24] In 1843 he used a cryptogram as plot device in his short story "The Gold-Bug". If the modified Declaration of Independence is used as a key for the first cipher, it yields alphabetical sequences such as. According to the pamphlet, Beale was the leader of a group of 30gentlemen adventurers from Virginia who stumbled upon the rich mine of gold and silver while hunting buffalo. [5] He also is recorded as becoming a Master Mason in 1863.[1]. The Complex Ciphers Have Been Decoded And Reveal Much More Than Many Thought Possible! (Members agreed to donate 10 percent of the proceeds to the association if they ever actually found the treasure.). Even though the dig that was carried out as a result of Coles decryption revealed an empty chamber (the website claims), the cryptographic details (ie, of how the codetext links with the plaintext) have yet to be released which is a tad fishy. The images below, transcribed from the pamphlet, show the original line-breaks for easy comparison. Read it when I was a boy reefs of shining gold rising from the desert. Beale entrusted a box containing the encrypted messages to a local innkeeper named Robert Morriss and then disappeared, never to be seen again. Nick: A pamphlet published in 1885, entitled The Beale Papers, is the source of this story. The Beale ciphers are a set of three ciphertexts, one of which allegedly states the location of a buried treasure of gold, silver and jewels estimated to be worth over US$43million as of January2018. 3 and distributing the treasure to its rightful heirs. 1900-1930, of which a great deal has been written over the years. Heres a claimed solution to the Beale Papers (but press Cancel on the login popup, and if browsing there under Windows, I wouldnt advise installing the ActiveX control that pops up) which I didnt know about until very recently. The page of cipher with 500+ characters starts with the number 71. Of course, Beale could have used a document that he had written himself for either or both of the remaining keys or either a document of his own or randomly selected characters for the third source, in either case rendering any further attempts to crack the codes useless. Beale then disappeared. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns. And they, especially HAVE NO IDEA of what they are looking for! until, at least, the full details of how all the deciphering was accomplished are released to the public, and validated. 140 byDoi = I 140=5+6+6=17=Q Ten men plus Beale traveled back from their mine to Bufords tavern but decided against burying their treasure in a closeby cavern and selected a new unidentified location to bury it. Our webpage linksare locatedat the top of And of course the brainiac rented a truck in the dead of night, bee-lined it down to Montvale, VA, collected the loot and has been living large in a clandestine sort of way, ever since. However, the treasure hunters only found Civil War artifacts. Given the circumstances and the amount of information I have gleaned from a superficial examination of information contained within the beale papers, I really do think that I was the one expected to figure it out. The treasure's total weight is about 3tons as described in inventory of the second cryptogram. What are the chances that all eleven people died during those years? Ward himself is almost untraceable in local records, except that a man with that name owned the home in which a Sarah Morriss, identified as the spouse of Robert Morriss, died at age 77, in 1863. After all, he thought Beales group were all dead? For sure, the eleven people that buried the treasure knew where it was and had twenty-three years to collect it without Morriss or anyone else knowing. Many are committed to the idea that this mystery has something to do with the writings of Edgar Allen Poe. I am not. The Tortoise is the ancient treasure hunter. Any treasure hunter in the world needs to keep people from knowing what they know as they pursue the treasure. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Yes the codes are broken! A survey of U.S. Census records in 1810 shows two persons named Thomas Beale, in Connecticut and New Hampshire. 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. The Beale Ciphers: Page 1 of 2. The page of cipher with 600+ characters starts with the number 317. The letters also contain several English words, such as "improvise", not otherwise recorded before the 1820s in English, The second message, describing the treasure, has been deciphered, but the others have not, suggesting a deliberate ploy to encourage interest in deciphering the other two texts, only to discover that they are hoaxes. Based on geographical isolation and known historical/political fact pertaining to the old Spanish/Pueblo, Santa Fe trail region of Nuevo Mexico circa. The Secret History of the Rosicrucians 4. (LogOut/ Apparently, Thomas Jefferson Beale was the typical rich plantation son turned derelict although quite the genius when it came to numbers, ciphers and devious plots who was amodel of manly beauty, favored by ladies and envied by men. Born in 1792 or thereabouts, named after neighbor Virginian Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence, whose Poplar Forest retreat isnt too far from the treasures apparent location, Beale gave the three ciphers to his bud Robert Morriss in 1822 in a locked box and told him to hang onto everything and hed be in touch. Nickell argues that the tale is thus a work of fiction; specifically, a "secret vault" allegory of the Freemasons; James B. It knows where all the secrets are buried. We welcome posts that aren't as suitable for /r/crypto, such as basic cipher-cracking challenges and discussions of simple data hiding. You would have to revew r/DeeCiphers and r/MapTheory to understand more. STAN CLAYTON. Words 78 and 79 ("self-evident"), shown hyphenated, are counted as 2 words. "It's almost impossible," Schmeh says. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. [29] One explanation for the difference between base 10 and the other ones is that the numbers were produced by a human in base 10, which would mean that the ciphers are fraudulent. The contentsarequite valuable. the ciphers are real..they lead to a point, well actually severalthey tell where it wasthey tell where it isand what it isthey tell alot more tooalthough not 30 peoples next of kin haha.is it gold and silver ?or only statues in the sand ?..who are the 3 ?..i could put their names in print but not my place to do socould poe be involved ?..one could easily go down that paththe wrong one of course..along with several other wrong pathsby designonly dogged determination can get one to the endalong the way you will be reduced to the lowest of the low..pure humiliation, but then you will see, and realize it was worth the candleone should keep a close eye on a mr roy dallashis bealekey website seems very quiet as of late.there is a reason why i am suresoon enough you will learn the truth i would think.not a hoax..just a game of working problems to a solutionthe answers are right there. This indicates that the ciphers are fraudulent. The Beale ciphers are a set of ciphertexts (3 ciphers) that supposedly discloses the location of a buried treasure of gold and silver valued at more than $80 million. The second was made Dec. eighteen twenty-one, and consisted of nineteen hundred and seven pounds of gold, and twelve hundred and eighty-eight of silver; also jewels, obtained in St.Louis in exchange to save transportation, and valued at thirteen thousand dollars. The others were not real. The directionsto thevault Welcome To The Beale Treasure Im not leaning towards it being real or a hoax I am considering anything possible pre the publishing of the Beall Papers 1885ish. And more relevant, why not list the heirs only since that is of value if, as Beale claimed, he was leaving the information in case something happened to his party on their next expedition and did not return. Hence two meaningless codes. It must have felt like nirvana when he cracked the second cipher using the Declaration of Independence. However, if one considers a base that is relatively prime to 10, then the last digits of the numbers in the unsolved ciphers turn uniform each digit is equally common. I made a gothic window code! 1; 2; NSA.GOV. The men abandoned their recreation and worked the mine, extracting a fortune in gold "as well as silver, which had likewise been found," according to the letter. Your email address will not be published. to the Beale Vaultwere entirely decoded from this cipher and no other.Beale's use of landmarks, the location of the 1. I just heard of this and thought someone would use a book of the same time period so i googled popular literature 1800s and moby dick and history of sperm whale came up. [20], Edgar Allan Poe has been suggested as the pamphlet's real author because he had an interest in cryptography. The Beale Cipher is a cipher in which two parties agree on a key which is a text (e.g., The Declaration of Independence which was used by Thomas Beale [1] as the key for one of his three encrypted texts), and the words in the text are then enumerated, and the encrypted text consists of numbers from the key. But language experts who've examined the texts of the letters and compared them to the pamphlet have concluded that "it all seems to have been written by the same person," Dunin explains. I am giving them out free for all to see at http://www.bealetreasurecodes.com. But even more so, from discouraging government entities (e.g. MY CODE KEY,ADD CODE DIGITS TO TWICE THE PREVIOUS ADDED CODE DIGITS. Larry: Your own interest in the lost Dutchman mine, is somewhat reminiscent of our best known Australian equivalent, Lasseters reef circa. This is critical, because viewed as circumstantial evidence only, the residence document which is supposed to list the heirs to the treasure instead essentially says hey, weve all come back and removed our treasure and even paid taxes on it. Well, of what value is that for Beale to botherencoding, let alone give to someone in a cipher form to protect? [10] Other questions remain about the authenticity of the pamphlet's account. Even if this was all valid and part of an elaborate hoax by someone to lead people to a vault that was always empty, history is being robbed of a great part of this story. If you know the stories, Beales group was said to be thirty or forty men. IM SURPRISED NO ONE HAS CHECKED MY KEYS TO THE LOCATION, TRY 71 ADDED =8 +7 =CARRY ON TO GET/ OUR PXT IRYST MAP TO BURIAL CACHED PLOT RC JAYS ZEBIDAYA.THE ADDED 7 IS FROM THE MISSING LETTER TO MORRIS FROM ST LOUIS THE S = +19 OR Recently, I discovered an apparently no-longer-maintained web site Beale Ciphers Solvedwhich documented not only that the other documents in the Beale Ciphers were successfully deciphered(sometime in the late 1990s by Daniel Cole, now deceased), but showed what was found at the location described by the deciphered location document. ), United States Declaration of Independence, "Leading cryptanalysts seek to break secret code reported to tell of buried treasure in Virginia", "Historical London Fix Prices Current Year| Kitco", "Motley group gathers to solve ciphers to treasure", "A basic probe of the Beale Cipher as bamboozlement", "On the Role of Base 10 in the Beale Ciphers", "Generation of random sequences by human subject: A critical survey of literature", "The Thomas Beale Cipher: A Short Film by Andrew Allen", "The Beale Cipher: A Dissenting Opinion April 1980, "The Quest to Break America's Most Mysterious Code And Find $60 Million in Buried Treasure", "Historical and Analytical Studies in Relation to the Beale Ciphers", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beale_ciphers&oldid=1128308400, Undeciphered historical codes and ciphers, Articles containing potentially dated statements from January 2018, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2022, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. after word 154 ("institute") and before word 157 ("laying") one word must be added. 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