The legend of Thomas Beale may never be solved. According to legend, Thomas Beale found large amounts of treasure during the first quarter of the 1900th century in the western part of North American. In about 1820, he went on his final trip to get more treasure. Before he left, he entrusted a friend with three cyphers which he said would direct his friend to the treasure if he did not return. The first cpyher described the directions to the location of the treasure, the second described the treasure and the third gave the names of those who were to share in the treasure. If he and his party did not return, the treasure was to be divided among the families of the treasure hunters.
Apparently when he did not return, the friend did not decypher the notes, but after 20 years gave them to someone else. This man tried for many years to decypher the notes, costing him his family and all of this possesions for he became obsessed with finding the solution. He finally broke cypher number 2 using the Declaration of Indepenance as the key. He reasoned that each number corresponded to a letter in some written document. Using the first letter of each word in the Declaration of Indepencance and substituting those letters for the numbers in Article 2, he was able to read the following message.
"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."
The county of Bedford is in Virginia, which is where he is said to have lived. If this legend in true, the treasure may still be hidden somewhere in Bedford county. In the last 175 years, no person or computer has been known to break the remaining codes.
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