Hidden beneath the hills of Virginia, legend says a fortune in gold and silver lies buried—locked away by a code that’s defied the world’s best minds for over two centuries. Join The Enigma Files as we trace the story of Thomas Jefferson Beale, the mysterious ciphers, and the obsession that’s turned Bedford County into America’s most enduring treasure hunt.

In the aftermath of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, one of the most vital pieces of evidence quietly vanished — his brain. The Enigma Files reopens one of America’s strangest and most unsettling mysteries. Why was Kennedy’s brain removed, preserved… and then lost? Was it destroyed, hidden, or buried with him in secret?

In October 1849, literary icon Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore—dressed in another man’s clothes and muttering a single, haunting name. Four days later, he was dead. No autopsy. No clear cause. Was it alcohol, illness, political foul play—or something darker? In this episode of The Enigma Files we uncover the final, bewildering days of Poe’s life and the enduring mystery that still shadows his genius.