The Beale Treasure Traditional Cache
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This is a celebration of the Beale Treasure of Virginia. BYOP
and tweezers. (switched to a temporary cache today to repair
damage to the original one)
The Beale ciphers are a set of three ciphertexts, one of which
allegedly states the location of a buried treasure of gold, silver
and jewels estimated to be worth over $65 million as of 2010. The
other two ciphertexts allegedly describe the content of the
treasure, and list the names of the treasure's owners' next of kin,
respectively. The story of the three ciphertexts originates from an
1885 pamphlet detailing treasure being buried by a man named Thomas
Jefferson Beale in a secret location in Bedford County, Virginia,
in 1820. Beale entrusted the box containing the encrypted messages
with a local innkeeper named Robert Morriss and then disappeared,
never to be seen again.The innkeeper gave the three encrypted
ciphertexts to a friend before he died. The friend then spent the
next twenty years of his life trying to decode the messages, and
was able to solve only one of them which gave details of the
treasure buried and the general location of the treasure. He
published all three ciphertexts in a pamphlet, although most of the
originals were destroyed in a warehouse fire. Since the publication
of the pamphlet, a number of attempts have been made to decode the
two remaining ciphertexts and to find the treasure, but all have
resulted in failure. My wife is a Beale and we own an operate the
Beale Farm that is located near this cache.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Uvqqra va cynva fvtug.
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