Published in the spring of 1885, The Beale Papers may be the
earliest unsolved American “mystery cache”. The anonymous author of
this twenty-one page pamphlet conveyed a story of an epic journey
of exploration that resulted in the discovery of a fortune in gold
and the creation of secret ciphers that would reveal the location
of the hidden treasure.
In the one hundred and twenty-one years since its publication,
The Beale Papers has become legendary in the cryptography and
treasure hunting worlds. Only one of the three ciphers has ever
been solved successfully. The exact location of the treasure is
supposedly revealed in one of the remaining unsolved ciphers.
If The Beale Papers are genuine, somewhere six feet under the
ground in Virginia is over $30 million in gold stored in iron
pots!
The coordinates listed are not of the actual cache location but
are of a nearby benchmark and serve only as a general reference
point. To reveal the cache location you must first solve The Beale
Papers Revisited cipher. A study of the original The Beale Papers
story will divulge the means. Additional search hints are provided
by viewing the spoiler photos.
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