Beale Papers consist of three sets of ciphertexts that lead to a buried treasure of gold, silver, and jewels with an estimated worth more than $43 million dollars. The first ciphertext describes the location of the treasure bury (which is unsolved). The second describes the content of the buried treasure (which is solved). The third lists the treasure's owners and next of kin (biological relatives of the treasure's owners), this one is unsolved as well.
The Beale Papers (ciphers) comes from a man known as Thomas J. Beale who described a secret location in Bedford County, Virginia where the treasure was buried in 1885. A local innkeeper named Robert Morriss received a box with the Beale Papers in it and Beale disappeared, nobody has seen him again. Twenty-three years later, the innkeeper opened the box, he probably could not solve the ciphertexts and gave them to his friend after he died. This friend of Robert Morriss has spent 20 years of his life after Robert's death decoding the messages, he could only find the meaning of one of the three ciphertexts. The decrypted message only gave him (and us) the content of the treasure and a general location to the treasure bury. The guy put the ciphertexts in a pamphlet for sales in the 1880s, many attempts were made to decrypt the ciphers, but all have failed.
In 1980, Jim Gillogly, a cryptographer, with his "A Dissenting Opinion" article and a 1982 scholarly analysis of the Beale Papers, concluded the entire story is a hoax. But for people who are curious about what the second decrypted message was, it reads:
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 three, herewith:
The first deposit consisted of ten hundred and fourteen pounds of gold, and thirty-eight hundred and twelve pounds of silver, deposited Nov. eighteen nineteen. 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 above is securely packed in iron pots, with iron covers. The vault is roughly lined with stone, and the vessels rest on solid stone, and are covered with others. Paper number one describes the exact locality of the vault, so that no difficulty will be had in finding it.
If you are wondering how the 2nd message was decrypted, find it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beale... ciphers (or Beale,million as of January 2018.
The Beale Papers (ciphers) comes from a man known as Thomas J. Beale who described a secret location in Bedford County, Virginia where the treasure was buried in 1885. A local innkeeper named Robert Morriss received a box with the Beale Papers in it and Beale disappeared, nobody has seen him again. Twenty-three years later, the innkeeper opened the box, he probably could not solve the ciphertexts and gave them to his friend after he died. This friend of Robert Morriss has spent 20 years of his life after Robert's death decoding the messages, he could only find the meaning of one of the three ciphertexts. The decrypted message only gave him (and us) the content of the treasure and a general location to the treasure bury. The guy put the ciphertexts in a pamphlet for sales in the 1880s, many attempts were made to decrypt the ciphers, but all have failed.
In 1980, Jim Gillogly, a cryptographer, with his "A Dissenting Opinion" article and a 1982 scholarly analysis of the Beale Papers, concluded the entire story is a hoax. But for people who are curious about what the second decrypted message was, it reads:
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 three, herewith:
The first deposit consisted of ten hundred and fourteen pounds of gold, and thirty-eight hundred and twelve pounds of silver, deposited Nov. eighteen nineteen. 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 above is securely packed in iron pots, with iron covers. The vault is roughly lined with stone, and the vessels rest on solid stone, and are covered with others. Paper number one describes the exact locality of the vault, so that no difficulty will be had in finding it.
If you are wondering how the 2nd message was decrypted, find it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beale... ciphers (or Beale,million as of January 2018.
