document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Press Enter / Return to begin your search. 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}. 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. TheBeale Ciphers arewidely-known amongtreasurehunters. ! And thats a fact! Other strong support for the Declaration to be the key for the remaining two elusive ciphers is an extreme anomaly found when it is applied to Beale Cipher 1. Ive been playing around with cipher 3, and found that if you use the full text of the Consitution, you come up with Four in the shall person for the first five numbers. The third cipher appears to be too short to list thirty individuals' next of kin. So What Was The Point Of It All? In 1845, Morriss finally broke the lock on the container, found the mysterious papers with nothing but numbers, and passed them off to his friend James Ward. During spring through fall, the big herds would have been confined to the plains well to the east, gorging on the abundant, essential prairy grasses necessary to sustain their masses. to the Beale Vaultwere entirely decoded from this cipher and no other.Beale's use of landmarks, the location of the The vault is roughly lined with stone, and the vessels rest on solid stone, and are covered with others. 8 byDoI = I 8=8+5+5=18=R This indicates that the ciphers are fraudulent. In 2014, the National Geographic TV show The Numbers Game referred to the Beale ciphers as one of the strongest passwords ever created. Im not so certain that the beale papers actually direct anyone to a massive treasure of riches, as much as I think its going to lead to something gruesome. The first letter of word 95 ("inalienable") is always used as a "u" ("unalienable"). Beale! Beale later sent Morriss a letter from St. Louis, instructing him that if Beale didn't return, after 10 years Morriss had permission to open the box. Larry: Your own interest in the lost Dutchman mine, is somewhat reminiscent of our best known Australian equivalent, Lasseters reef circa. It must have felt like nirvana when he cracked the second cipher using the Declaration of Independence. to the Beale Vaultwere entirely decoded from this cipher and no other.Beale's use of landmarks, the location of the The Beale Papers text, on pages 20 to 21, gives an alleged translation of the second ciphertext, but it has nine differences from the actual one. area,construction details,talley ofthe pots plus contentsand thefinaldirections leading On the outside chance that the two ciphers really havent been cracked, lets devote some serious mind power during this horrific global pandemic / stay home order and find the hidden treasure. 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. 1; 2; NSA.GOV. No. Beale then disappeared. Additionally, as Schmeh notes, there are a few, slightly different versions of the Declaration of Independence. However, all of this is an entirely different claim to the Beale Solved code solution linked above, which was (re)constructed by Beale treasure hunter Daniel Cole (who died in 2001). Ward, whose 1885 pamphlet brought the Beale Papers to light. And the DoI does seem to have played a part in the construction of the (as-yet-undecrypted) B1 and B3 as well as of B2, even if we dont yet know what that part was. Cryptography/Beale cipher. Copyright 2001 SWN Seriously, lets do this. pendence (on which the solved cipher was based), and Beale, appropri-ately, after a man of that name who carried to the East both the news of, and the first gold from, the . Yet contemporary records show he did not start in that position until at least 1823. Thats a subtle hint that the whole story is a ruse and a waste of time. That means there are two ways to solve them. Of course, It doesnt help that Im seventy years old and a recent double amputee. The Author of the papers decoded the 2nd paper and presented it in the pamphlet to establish the basis that the remaining two cyphers would be decoded. For what its worth my opinion is that, as with the VMs, cries of hoax are more Chicken Licken than anything approaching an ironic postmodernist reading. 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. 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. 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. 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. But even more so, from discouraging government entities (e.g. It would be in an incredibly difficult place to get to also. Thanks for your post, u/Elisha_Dushku! It was made simple. Unable to solve the other two ciphertexts, the friend ultimately made the letters and ciphertexts public in a pamphlet entitled The Beale Papers, which was published by yet another friend, James B. The treasure's total weight is about 3tons as described in inventory of the second cryptogram. He claimed to have solved 100 of them in a six-month period, according to a 2000 Scientific American article. 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. And the whole thing is a goose chase like moby dick. I have decoded a number of messages and texts contained within the Beale Papers and the names associated with them. First, a budding treasure hunter could search for the right key. MINUS 7 AND THE PXT IS 89 ADDED 17+7=II3 =I MAKING PIT.DO THE SAME TO IRST. Morriss received a few letters from Beale, the last one in 1832. The solved cipher (2) differs wildly from the uniform distribution in all bases, but this is only true for the unsolved ones in base 10. Not that Im not friendly, because I am. Wikimedia Commons (CC By-SA 3.0)/HowStuffWorks For reasons unexplained, Morriss didn't break the lock and open the box until 23 years later, in 1845. *Some PagesUnder Construction* Comprising three ciphertexts, the first (as yet unsolved) text describes the location, the second . It even raises some suspicions. During the period of their ascendency, the huge herds ranged across the great plains where prairie grasses were in abundance. The vault is roughly lined with stone, and the vessels rest on solid stone, and are covered with others. For those in the Confederacy who doubted Mr. Samuel L. Clemens loyalty to his country, we refer them to The Innocents Abroad, and the reference to Ferguson. I plan on plodding through it more, checking to see if there is some cohesion here. Second, there is no reason not to provide this information. In fact I dont know of one of these other re-searchers who can give you the names of the 3 men that created this mystery, and back-up that statement in print! . But was the entire mystery just an elaborate hoax? 2), an unusually long monotonic increasing letter string ab f defghiijklmmn o h pp occurred in the decoded text, see gillogly "the beale cipher: a dissenting opinion" (1980) 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. The pamphlet's mysterious author figured out that one of the three sheets was in a code based on the Declaration of Independence, and deciphered it. [5] He also is recorded as becoming a Master Mason in 1863.[1]. [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. (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. The pamphlet's background story has several implausibilities, and is based almost entirely on circumstantial evidence and hearsay. While no documented case of anyone breaking the ciphers had been known, there were plenty of police cases of people trespassing and digging on properties nearBedford County Virigina, where the treasure was supposedly buried. 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. This page was last edited on 19 December 2022, at 13:01. If the modified Declaration of Independence is used as a key for the first cipher, it yields alphabetical sequences such as. Words 509 and 510 of the modified text ("mean time") are counted as two words, despite being shown as one word. But it didn't contain a map or simple instructions on how to find the fortune. But the exact location was on one of the other pages, in a coded message that the anonymous author conveniently for the mystery wasn't able to solve. Beale placed the ciphertexts and some other papers in an iron box. Dating The Fama And The Confessio. What are the Beale Ciphers? Why isnt this information shared? Here is another interesting coincidence,concerning the gillogy strings In the words of one researcher "To me, the pamphlet story has all the earmarks of a fake . The Beale hunters had supposedly set off from their winter quarters near Sante Fe in spring 1817, heading in a northerly direction through the Sangre de Cristos along the Rio Grande bearing to the west through mountain passes into South Colorado and beyond to mid state. Basically, they claimed to have found avault similar to what is described, but it was empty of any treasure. This would be the moment of well-earned personal fame. That is a reference to Champ Ferguson (those in the Confederacy will know whom he was). 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. I am something of a Medium and am in tune with God and Creation, and the Various other spirits in this world. "Does the Beale Ciphers' Code of Numbers Detail Hidden Treasure?" Its been nearly two whole centuries of endless attempts by the most skilled cryptographers, and yet the mystery has never been solved. (No source given. 2 and of no importance to the present discussion. Confusingly, some people argue that the Beale Papers are a fake (possibly by the promoter of the 1885 pamphlet, or even by Edgar Allen Poe, etc), claiming justification from statistical aspects of the cryptography and/or on claimed anachronisms in the language, etc: but a definitive answer either way has yet to be found. Really, it does look and feel basically how a home-cooked Victorian code-text ought to, with an emphasis towards lowish numbers (up to 350) plus a sprinkling of higher numbers (possibly for rare or awkward letters): Jim Gilloglys observation (in October 1980 Cryptologia) of an alphabet-like pattern in part 1 (if you apply part 2s codebook) seems to me more like a clue than a reason to reject the whole object as a hoax. Canadian sourced hides would have been cheap as (buffalo) chips in Boston at that time, from what I understand and also hides not being easy to prepare for selling back east, should have been a deterant to any such consideration in the first instance. Moriss stored it away and forgot about it until he received a letter from Beale, dated May 9, 1822. You must comment with the transcription of the message. A beale cipher is a modified Book Cipher. Whats the chance the eleven kept quiet about the treasure? So I strongly hope that the creators of the site can either take the time and post the information on the site, or solicit some help from others to do it. 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. The key would have been identifying the three documents used to create the cryptograms so they could easily be solved, (ie. Andreaes Two Journeys, The Secret History of the Rosicrucians 10. 71+2=142= L Paraphrased the text said to take his advice after he had lost everything to trying to solve these papers that you need to take care of all of your obligations and at the end of the day when your work is done, there is no harm pursuing these texts for a little while from time to time but not to let it consume you. From 1820, he was also living in Richmond, Virginia at the time of Beale's alleged encounters with Morriss. 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