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Secret Vault Allegory or Real Buried Treasure? The Beale Ciphers (Episode #61)

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Between 1819 and 1821 a fortune in gold, silver, and jewels were allegedly buried in the hills of Bedford County, Virginia, by a man named Thomas J. Beale. The supposed location of the treasure can only be deciphered through three encoded texts, two of which remain unbroken.

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EPISODE RESOURCES

  • O'Toole, Thomas. "The Beale Treasure." The Washington Post, May 10, 1987
  • Curry, Patrick. "The Beale Ciphers: Historical Overview and Current Status." *Journal of Cryptology*, vol. 4, no. 2, 1991, pp. 157-169
  • Humes, Edward. The Man Who Cracked the Code. New York: Scribner, 2011
  • Orlin, Eric. *American Cryptology: The Beale Cipher Mystery*. Random House, 1997
  • "The Beale Treasure Ciphers". The Guardian. 1999. Archived from the original on 2006-12-30
  • Denton, Geoffrey. "Cryptographic Explorations in the Beale Ciphers." *Cryptography Journal*, vol. 2, no. 4, 2004, pp. 223-245
  • Dunning, Brian (March 13, 2012). "Skeptoid #301: The Beale Ciphers". Skeptoid

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    TIMESTAMPS
    00:00:00 - Beginning
    00:00:10- Introduction
    00:03:38 - The Story of the Beale Ciphers
    00:36:56 - Common Theories
    01:02:20 - Our Theories
    01:09:00 - Closing
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