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Beale Ciphers

Jun 16, 20201 min
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Summary

This episode explores the legend of Thomas J. Beale's immense fortune of gold, silver, and jewels, mined in the early 1800s and secretly buried in Virginia. Beale reportedly left three numeric ciphers detailing the treasure's location, contents, and division, but only one has ever been partially decoded. To this day, the other ciphers remain an unsolved puzzle, with the treasure unfound and its very existence often questioned.

Episode description

Three numeric cyphers are said to hold the key to a fortune worth 47 million dollars
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