In 1885, a short pamphlet was published containing a strangely compelling story – a kind of cross between Edgar Allan Poe and the Wild West. It claimed to record a letter written in 1822 by a Thomas Jefferson Beale to a Mr Morriss, which in turn claimed to contain three encoded texts (now known as ‘B1’, ‘B2’, and ‘B3’) describing the location and beneficiaries of a huge treasure haul hidden in Bedford County, Virginia during 1819 and 1821. The pamphlet included a decoding of B2 (using a slightly miscounted Declaration of Independence as a codebook), but nothing for B1 and B3.
It should be no surprise that since then, countless Beale treasure hunters have trawled the historical archives for references to the people involved (but with relatively little success), hunted for texts that might have been used as the codebooks for B1 and B3 (also with little success), and have raked over Bedford County with old maps, metal detectors, and occasionally digging machines (similarly unsuccessfully).
Was the whole thing no more than a scam to make money from printing the pamphlet? Many think so – and yet there are many statistical aspects of B1 that make it look as though it was created in a very similar way to B2. In fact, the most mysterious aspect of all (as first noted by well-known historical codebreaker Jim Gillogly) is that if you use the same miscounted Declaration of Independence as the codebook for B1, you end up with some extraordinarily improbable text sequences, for example ABFDEFGHIIJKLMMNOHPP.
Personally, I think this indicates that B1 is a real codetext, and perhaps even that a differently-miscounted version of the Declaration of Independence was used to encode it (though with a simple cipher applied to it too). For more on Gillogly’s discussion click here, and (my follow-up post) here.
For the full text of the ciphers and (alleged) letters, go to a dedicated Beale Papers transcription page on the Cipher Foundation’s website.
Nick,
Scam. The “Beale” papers were one of hundreds of “treasure maps” that were being sold from the east coast of the US, all the way to the gold fields of the west coast. The treasure maps/diaries were also being sold at every port of departure to the gold fields of California. Some ports were as far away as China and Australia.
The Beale papers were the most tedious writings I have ever attempted to read entirely. I failed the entirety phase.
If you’re at all interested in California’s side of various stories, you might enjoy the “Sons of the Golden West” website, which has an archive of ships passenger lists from “all over”.
Just a thought — as far finding more “cipher-mysteries” and possibly add “whodunnits” to your pages?
Perhaps I have solved the Beale Papers cryptogram B1.
In July of 2005, I cracked B1 and can report this information concerning it. Please study it carefully.
I have a decipherment of B1. It’s short…only the first 16 coded numbers substitute out to a plaintext of directions on where to dig (even if a treasure does not exist). I have read the Gillogly paper and agree that the majority of the cryptogram is random numbers….I think the Gillogly string was injected into the selection of random choices to throw off later cryptanalysts and further hide the first 16 characters. B2 was fraught with error and I think that B1 was created by the author of the pamphlet after B2; B1 being short and sweet because the encoder was probably tired of counting letters in the DOI which is the key to B1. The DOI is applied in a special manner to B1 and the short plaintext appears as follows:
ERE FEN DUE RED KNEE
Ere is a variation of the word ear which means to plow. Fen is a low land or spot. Due means exactly. Red Knee is likely the name of a spot that is currently unknown to me and to other apparently as I have published this plaintext in two newspaper articles in hopes to locate red knee.
The original pamplet DOI is the key to B1 (to arrive at my decipherment). DOI word #111 in the original pamplet is “their” instead what it should be: “these”. And, between words #154 and #155 (institute and new) is inserted (incorrectly) the word: “a”. These two mistakes in the original pamplet are necessary to arrive at my decipherment.
My small error in determining word #71 I believe was the same error committed by the author of B1. Word #70 was mistakingly thought to be “separation” and therefore the word “we” was selected as word #71. When you come to encoded #76, commit the same error (logically).
Run this by selecting the LAST letter of each word for the first 16 encoded numbers. Place a question mark for encoded numbers over 1322 (there are two). Reverse the order of letters selected and arrive at:
ere fen d?e red ?nee
Perhaps you have found the one “K” that ends the word “mock” in the original pamphlet DOI; I think it’s word #697 (not sure right now about this). The author of B1 could have selected the word “mock” to indicate a “K” for “knee”. The only other letter that could be selected by the future cryptanalyst is “s” for “snee” (no other english words end with nee). Snee is a word in the dictionary, but does not make sense in a final plaintext. Likewise, the “U” makes the most sense for the final plaintext and “U” does not appear as the final letter of any word in the DOI. Because these letters were not located by the author of B1 in the DOI, he selected ecoded numbers for the cryptogram over 1322 to indicate that some extra work would be necessary to fill in the gaps. This theory seems to make the most sense. Therefore, ERE FEN DUE RED KNEE jumps right out at you; this does not seem to be coincidence or anything but an intended message….especially since the plaintext is backwards!
James Gillogly’s paper: The Beale Cipher: A Dissenting Opinion (on line). This paper indicates a string of letters that indicate that the pamphlet DOI is the key to B1, but that B1 MAY also be a hoax. Well, most of the cryptogram is a hoax except for the well hidden ERE FEN DUE RED KNEE. I am not concerned about the error I made with word #71 as there were many errors in the encipherment of B2 as well.
The plaintext is very short and to the point. If one finds red knee, one digs at the low spot and perhaps finds what is hidden? Is there a treasure? I don’t know for sure. What I do know is that a message was placed in B1 and this is a huge find.
Red Knee was later identified as the tarantula that curiously attaches to Edgar Allan Poe’s tale The Gold Bug. We are lead to The Gold Bug to search out a hidden secretly written missive within the tale that leads to a mansion in Philadelphia. Actually this mansion is thought to represent “Buford’s Tavern” in the Beale Papers and within “four miles” from this mansion tavern is another site (another mansion) in Germantown where the Beale Treasure was hidden in the 18th century. In urns atop the roof about “six feet below the level of the ground”…the ground being the lightning rod tip on the roof. The urns, there were five of them on the roof and were destroyed. Today the urns that adorn this mansion called Cliveden, are reproductions. The five urns were thought to have contained the gold, silver and jewels hinted to in the Beale Papers tale.
Through research of 18 years, it became apparent that there are multiple sites of suspected hidden wealth. Philadelphia is just one location. Virginia is also a State that likely has Beale wealth hidden…this project is spearheaded by others and they seem to be quite successful to date.
Kenneth: I don’t really know what to say. It’s plain as day that you sincerely believe that you’ve solved B1, yet your solution seems not to satisfy any objective cryptanalytical metric. For one, “ERE FEN D?E RED ?NEE” is so overwhelmed by E’s (7 E’s, 7 consonants, 2 unknowns) that it is very hard for me (at least) to see it as a real message rather than an arbitrary series of word-final letters. For another, I’m quite sure that the presence of the (in)famous Gillogly strings indicates that real cryptography is in play in B1, rather than a load of hoaxery. And for another, B2 says exactly what B1 and B3 contain: so your “ERE FEN…” string doesn’t match the rest of the papers.
But that’s just my own super-rational opinion, and you probably know all that already: and if your cryptic string turns out to be a clue that leads you to treasure in Cliveden and elsewhere, then I’m cool with that too. 🙂
Nick…thank-you for responding.
More accurately, I feel I have cracked B1; there may be more hidden within it I now feel is likely. ERE FEN DUE RED KNEE is immediate and backwards enciphered. It seems to be a separate pointer to a direction other than what may be more thoroughly addressed in the body of the cipher (I will address this soon). Anyway, the plain text phrase is the basis or jumping point to lead to Cliveden via Mount Pleasant mansion in Philadelphia. Mount Pleasant is indirectly referenced in a cryptic secret writing in Poe’s tale The Gold Bug lead to by a tarantula (Red Knee). A direct line from “Red Knee” to the “tarantula” in the tale.
Concerning Cliveden:
The man who recreated the urns from the pieces of the originals and is closely associated with Cliveden said to me in his statement that the urns very likely could have held wealth as they had a vault in each of them. He made this statement which may be a treasure in itself; study why he would have made this statement; know what is behind this statement…read between the lines as one must do with the Beale Papers:
“Diamonds in the soles of her urns”
View these urns here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cliveden_front_roof.jpg
ERE FEN DUE RED KNEE lies underneath the wider view of the encrypted B1:
Study carefully.
Ron Gervais publishes on his site: (Google) BEALE CIPHERS ANALYSES (view page 26 item 6).
Once you’ve looked at the material, know that “the small island” referred to is Machias Seal Island in the Bay of Fundy northeast of Maine.
Is a Freemasonry secret known of the 13th Degree: Royal Arch of Enoch (or Knights of The Ninth Arch) ? Does Machias Seal Island represent the subterranean cavern of this Freemasonry group?
Does the Beale Papers lead us, in a complicated way, to Machias Seal Island which is disputed heavily for ownership by the US and Canada?
A well known thesaurus by Roget indicates in its 1000 entries that #666 is defined as a refuge or hiding place. Does Machias Seal Island have any reference to 666? Let’s see…
“Ninth Arch”… nine, hmmm.
Call up a map of the eastern seaboard.
Run an approximate straight line from the DC monument (obelisk) to Machias Seal Island. Note this:
The near exact straight line from DC, Wilmington, Philadelphia, Trenton, NYC (statue of liberty), Bridgeport, New Haven, Boston to MSI is a line that intersects these cities (no more, no less) and the line contains exactly NINE points DC through Machias Seal Island.
Want more?…
Statute miles from DC to Machias Seal Island is almost exactly 666. Wow?!
Want more…?
DC to Philadelphia (statute miles) is right at 133.16. Philadelphia to Bridgeport is right at 133.16. Bridgeport to Boston is right at 133.16. Boston to MSI is right at 266.5. This is 666 statute miles. Curiously convenient. 666 statute miles from DC is MSI (or Machias Seal Island).
Does the distance of 133 and the “Lost Book of Enoch” have anything to do with the fact that Dan Brown’s book “The Lost Symbol” has exactly an unusual number of chapters being 133 and a grand subject being the DC monument (the obelisk)? Does the height of the obelisk in DC reflect a reference to the distance from DC to MSI? Let’s see…
Washington monument (obelisk) is approximately 555.5 feet high, but is actually about 583.5 feet high from sea level. So the spire from sea level reaches high about 583.5 feet. So, the monument is actually right at 583.5 feet high.
Why was the monument built at such a specific height? Why?
583.5 feet was a code to be transformed. If one looks at 583.5 feet as STATUTE MILES instead…what do we have? Well, 583.5 statute miles from DC on the line to MSI falls short of the island. Hmmm.
What if we consider 583.5 feet to be NAUTICAL MILES instead of feet? In other words, the height of the monument is coded to mean 583.5 nautical miles…
To transform nautical miles to statute miles one multiplies by 8 and divides by 7 for a near approximation of statute miles. So…
583.5 nautical miles multiplied by 8 and then divided by 7 equals …. yes, 666.85714 statute miles !! Mathematics does not lie.
The distance therefore from DC to MSI (in statute miles) was intended to be almost exactly 666 to indicate that MSI is a refuge or hiding place of something. Lafitte?
The Beale Papers code #1 as was previously outlined in the Ron Gervais site is an itinerary to MSI and represents only one facet of what is hidden in the Beale Papers. There are other people working to uncover other sites of hidden wealth which are hidden in the confines of Beale. I, myself, have other locations that the ciphers indicate that treasure is hidden. MSI is only one site.
The Beale Papers is a massive coded miracle.
Let’s not ignore the elephant in the drawing room…”7 e’s and 7 consonants and two unknowns”? If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, waddles like a duck, and bends over to avoid being hit…then it’s duck. The ERE FEN DUE RED KNEE “key” energizes many tumblers “probable facts” that are simply impossible to validate. Too bad.
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Response delay is understood, I’ve delivered a great deal to study.
It seems that “objective cryptanalytical metric” stymies other more subjective methods of hiding information. Seems to me that the “objective” side must admit and deal with its counterpart. After all, cryptography and steganography (literary types) are related and therefore must interact. To treat one like it’s not like itself is to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Seems to me.
Anyway, I’ll await and welcome your thoughts on my last post; there is more to be known.
“National (Beale) Treasure….At Red Knee”
Ken: I suspect you’re bouncing your questions off the wrong person here, because I don’t really recognize anything of what you describe as cryptography or steganography (and I’ve seen a large amount of both).
Having said that, I also failed to recognize anything in David Ovason’s recent “Shakespeare’s Secrete Booke: Deciphering Magical and Rosicrucian Codes” as cryptography or steganography (he focuses on the number “33” rather than “666” as you do). So perhaps there’s a whole body of work out there that’s simply fated to remain invisible to me.
Nick…
No more questions.
It seems dangerous and irresponsible for the “objective cryptanalytical metric” community to ignore or render “invisible” an elusive, ethereal method of secret writing as, if I’m not mistaken, steganography (hidden within hidden) is a term that falls under the main category of cryptography. Therefore, “don’t really recognize” and “remain invisible” are phrases that seem to be quite costly.
Costly in that failing to “recognize” the miasma, the non-cryptography, not only curiously overprotects the Beale Papers and may just reach to other levels of failing to do the right thing…which is left to the imagination. Then again perhaps, and this is a long shot, just maybe, someone doesn’t want the Beale Papers to be solved.
OK, I seem to be the only one that purports a solution of this nature…I against the masses. Then again, maybe David Ovason is a like minded individual. I do appreciate you offering the information on his new book. However, I do not let you, if I may say so, off the hook as a cryptanalyst to engage your expertise in a world that one should engage themselves in. After all, the truth is paramount…right?
If I may say so myself, what I’ve done with the Beale Papers, even if it is not an exact solution in the end, has been quite extraordinary…not unlike spewed (and I mean oozed out information from the cracks of cryptography) information from a true prodigious savant. The mere fact that what has emerged is testament for a form of recognition.
I don’t want to hear what can’t be…only what can be…and then discuss it. I see clearly what is going on …and this will be left to the imagination for now.
The Beale code is a classic case of misdirection. The answer to the enigma is in the “mistakes.” An analysis of the errors deciphering code 2 are very revealing. In the appendix to my book, “The Jefferson Mysteries, Declaration of Independence” I present a logical argument that the code was written by Beverly Hemings in response to his father’s hypocrisy.
Ronald: as I’m sure you already know, Beale cryptologists such as Jim Gillogly have managed to lay bare precisely how unintentional errors in the enciphering of B2 caused the differences. Hence I’d be extremely surprised if there were sufficient wiggle room left beyond those errors to encipher much of a message. I do feel I ought to repeat my earlier question about which bits of your book are historical fact and which bits are historical fiction: without knowing that, it’s a stretch for me to even consider a link between the (real-life) Beale Papers and the (real-life) Beverly Hemings, never mind invest time and effort in trying to evaluate it.
Nick…what do you make of this plain text, dictional content is unusual but coherrent enough; let’s discuss and then I’ll reveal the cipher…thanks:
“By reason of most promising human beings, our wish to become greater those nearby
qualities, rise power to dominate, not ever to cease to exist; yet to the same degree, by
that one who slashes shall, through the agency of a definite portion of duration, die; he of
delicate quality, who takes or displays the qualities of some forerunner, may show visibly him,
one who is remembered, that you cause to draw together near, your belonging
quickwitted attentive observations. Nourish you mental or spiritual insight’s ardor
from an individual considered as a subject of his own consciousness and of real
worth and importance; whatever sustains or heightens emotions contributes
to improvement any dearth to a situation to which a plentiful or overflowing supply exists.
You! your enemy aiming at your gentle and winning qualities, any attribute, more than
sufficiently causing mental or physical suffering. You, as a result, are at once the universe’s
newly received person regarded as a source of honor or credit, as well as, for one purpose alone,
bearer of important news directed toward that garish cause to happen. Interiorly your, to the
exclusion of others, immaturity conceals your subject matter; moreover, yielding easily to a rude or
surly person causes devastation within the confines of parsimony. Grief or pain awakened in that
human inhabitants of the earth, either in a different time or place, that is near or present,
actual or in thought, one who has a great capacity is intending to consume that mankind’s
attribution through the agency of that end and final loss to you.”
B1 text uses numbers higher than 1322 for a character representation, this one was not craked directly from the Declaration of Independece. So what other famous text could it be? it necessary must have more than 2906 words…
I have been amused over the years by the laughsble ideas and elaborate proofs put forward to sell more books re the beale pamplets i think the lipstick cross on the rocks was the best so far, anyway ive decided to finish off the whole saga im putting the plot number and grave name on the internet on july 4 2013 and the method of getting it, the grave name is hidden in my book so i can prove ive had it all these years my decodes prove Poe wrote it first, his name is in it and OPQRSTof Gillogy fame is decoded Stan Clayton
hurry up and get yor books published on the Beale treasure before the forth of july thats unless some one finds the name of the grave and plot letters from my book BEALE TREASURE MAP TO CIPHER SUCCESS.AS IM SURE REVELATIONS WILL FINISH OFF THE BEALE STORIES, I FEEL SURE SOME OF YOU ALREADY HAVE THE GRAVE NAME AS NO ONES ASKED ME FOR IT,Stan Clayton
Ken is close is all I can say. I actually have solved the “ciphers” and all I will say at this point is that the “given” portion of the ciphers, the numbers, are not the entirety of the ciphers (if you can call them that)- all of the narrative is just as important to cracking the code- and I can concretely say- there is no treasure- so put the shovels down. Also, none of the frequency (or lack of), is remotely important either. 133…yes indeed- .what is the Gematrian Value of “The Beale Papers”?
All of the errors are purposeful, in fact, the errors themselves are the back doors.
Paul Stewart…”The Beale Papers” gem atria = 133.
Interesting.
Why do you think “there is no treasure”?
Write me.
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Using the technique as explained by Stan Clayton in his book, I deciphered part of C1 as follows:
“THE PLACE WE BURIED GOLD CAN BE LOCATED BY GOING NORTH WHERE A MONUMENT STANDS BEFORE
WALKING A DISTANCE OF FIVE HUNDRED STEPS WEST”
Paul.
Coincidentally, the Gematrian value of “EDGAR ALLEN POE” is
also 133.
ill tell you all this. You are over looking everything and wrong. and will leave you with this if you can make sense of it then maybe you can beat me to virginia
liberty to the do justice the not for and form herein or
Matt: good luck with that, send me a (virtual) postcard when you’ve recovered the treasure and we’ll all celebrate for you. 🙂
What’s interesting with all the obelisks/high monuments on the “Royal Arch” or “rainbow” displayed here:
Mexico City, Mexico
New Orleans, LA
Atlanta, GA
DC
Wilmington, DE
Philadelphia, PA
Trenton, NJ
Edison, NJ
New York, NY
Bridgeport, CT
New Haven, CT
Boston, MA
Machias Seal Island
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Some interesting text:
Then, and only then, shall we see the place where, “the wicked shall cease from troubling, and the weary shall be at rest. From the bowels of Mt. Moriah, there shall come a terrible rumble, and the true name of the Most High God, shall be revealed to all that are around the throne. The Master Mason shall throw away his “substitute” and the Royal Arch Masons will no longer need Three times Three to repeat that which has been found, and all of Heaven shall exclaim, “Holiness to the Lord, Holiness to the Lord, Holiness to the Lord!”
One greater than Solomon is here! A new High Priest has offered up to the Great “I AM!”
I contribute here extremely sporadically…and as others may know I make the claim like so many others that I’ve solved the TBPs- but other than publishing my own book, what or who could I turn to to have someone review it prior to prove it? Would James Gillogly be open to reviewing it or is he simply burnt out on the subject?
Paul Stewart: Jim Gillogly is definitely still active (he and I exchanged emails about a novel transposition cipher a month or two back, and you may have heard of the 2008 book “Decoding The IRA” to which he contributed the cryptological analyses). As with most crypto guys, if your decryption involves gematria, extensive anagramming, previously unknown backslang, or a polyglot mix of revealed languages (all things I’ve seen claimed in the past, *sigh*), he’s probably not going to be hugely interested. 😉 But if not, dropping him a line would probably be a good idea. Feel free to email me ( [email protected] ) for his contact details.
Thanks Nick-
Would you be interested in reviewing my work? I could stick something in the mail if you are or send you a small sample via email to show you what I’ve found- and its bulletproof.
I did indeed speak with Mr. Gillogly. He suggested submitting a paper for Cryptologia however the formatting requirements of the journal are next to impossible to conform to and keep to the spirit of my proof…as most are quite large…so not sure what to do.
In a nutshell however- Joe Nickell was right. The culprit was a Freemason, but its not enough to simply say the TBP are Masonic allegory. Its far more than that. Freemasonry defines itself as a “peculiar system of morality veiled in allegory and expressed through symbols”….and this is exactly what the Beale Papers are; there are no mistakes, the location of every number in relation to other numbers is critical. Durations, years, amounts, etc- all contribute to the allegory. The trick is knowing what the allegory alludes to.
My fear however is that the answers are not what people expect them to be as Masonic allegory isn’t necessarily narrative in form.
Paul: please feel free to email (or indeed physically mail) whatever Beale-related stuff you like to me. I’ll email you separately.
As you’d expect, having (of course) looked in some depth at Freemasonry over the years (it’s one of those perennial subjects), I’d be somewhat surprised if it was behind the Beale Papers – they’re not obviously ritualistic, they’re public, there is no mention of anything in the booklet obviously relating to Freemasonry, etc etc.
Nick- I sent you a very small smattering this weekend of what I’ve uncovered as well as a quicky explanation as to why Freemasonry, and a very specific branch of Freemasonry, was responsible for crafting the Beale Papers.
As I stated earlier, people expect and assume only a narrative answer is possible and perhaps have not even contemplated that there could be a different conclusion. There is the unwarranted expectation that at some point someone will unlock the code, replace the numbers with letters and viola…a readable message. Its an assumption which has resulted in a thousand dead-ends because its incorrect.
I believe when I first posted on this site (in which I claimed to have unlocked the ciphers), the immediate (and logical) response was; how could I explain the Gillogly strings? Actually, its quite simple. Gillogly was right on target by using the DOI for C1. What does using the DOI on C1 actually illuminate? A series of English letters in alphabetic order; A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, I, J, K, L, M- but is that really the entirety of what was uncovered with the discovery of the string?
Excellent post Paul.
What would or could be determined if the longest Gillogly string had been enciphered backwards…would this be significant and, if so, why?
The “different conclusion” may be the “ERE FEN DUE RED KNEE” and it was enciphered backwards… !
The spider…it leads to “The Gold Bug” …something hidden within the tale. The Gold Bug intimates the forthcoming of the Beale Papers by text within the tale forshadowing this treasure story.
When we converse, I may have a good contact for you.
Check out the Youtube video by Googling “Seeling Beale’s Treasure Youtube” …the spider? Why did Poe include a “tarantula” in the beginning of The Gold Bug tale if not for a reason?
What the string tells a researcher is that yes, the DOI is indeed the correct document to have used to decipher C1, even though it doesn’t provide letters for 100% of the cipher numbers. The ability to create the string and yet find nothing else is certainly confusing, but its not the entirety of what is illuminated by using the DOI- and this is important to recognize. Only the Beale-version of the DOI will illuminate both the string as well as the10 numbers which cannot be converted to letters- and these 10 numbers are actually more important than the string.
Paul Stewart: I take the fact that some numbers are (apparently) out of range for the DOI to mean that the encrypting mechanism used for the rest is somehow incomplete map, and that these out-of-range numbers are somehow ‘addenda’ for out-of-range letters that aren’t covered by the map.
For instance, if the DOI alphabet is somehow mapped 1-to-1 to a keyphrase that includes a few (say, 5 or 6) repeated letters, then the encipherer ends up 5 or 6 letters short in the overall cipher alphabet, and would hence need a handful of extra (and out of range) numbers to encipher any unmapped letters.
I’d therefore agree that these out of range numbers are important, because (in my opinion) they probably encipher rare letters sitting at the end of the alphabet (say, V/W/X/Y/Z). But I’m not currently aware of any other logical inferences that you can draw from these letters, is there a web-page or book I should have read on this subject?
But I really don’t think that the B2 version of the DOI is exactly the same as the B1 version of the DOI, because there are too many T’s in the plaintext you get, which in a dictionary letter cipher would normally be a giveaway that you’ve slipped out of sync with the dictionary numbering.
Sorry, I’m being cryptic… what I’m saying is the DOI was/is indeed the document to decode C1. The string of letters confirms this fact, which places the 10 numbers too large to receive a letter value in a strange spot. People assume they stand for letters when in fact the numbers are the entirety of the message and the key to understanding the location of the treasure.
The mistake everyone makes is assuming the information in the Ciphers is arbitrary- that you can make line breaks wherever you need to when copying down the numbers. This is a fatal mistake. Instead, place the numbers in spread sheet form, beginning and ending each line of the original cipher exactly as it was originally printed. Do this and the ten numbers now have locations within the grid and can produce an entirely new set of values. Its these values which are the key to solving C1. The same is true for C2 (which hasn’t been solved) and C3. The DOI works for all three- making the TBP a closed-loop.
I am very interested in The Beale Treasure and the “B3” Paper. After several days, I came up with my own deciphering of the “3” Paper.
I have deciphered it as such; INSIDE THE VAULT SILVER COINS AND GOLD COINS – ALL THE VAUTS AREE BURIED NEXTO A LARGE SHAL(SHALE) ROCK & CAVE LOCAL N UPPER EAST V(VIRGINIA) E(AND) CSTER(CHESTER?) DAYVEE(DAVIES?) STATUR(STATURE?) TO VON DIN MISN(MISSION) DS(DOES) LET REGGIE EAS(EASON?) NAIL BOX AT CEEY(CITY LENS or HOLE LENS VIRGINIA?) ELNS(E.L.N.s’) GOLD COINS V(FIVE) R(ARE) N(IN) A BED N(IN) A TUNNEL – LET A PAIL – GABBRIELLS LG(LARGE) GOLD N(IN) V(FIVE) RED HUE POT OF THIN IRON POTS SO E(AND) TOO V(FIVE) GUESSES N(AND) SEE OATHS A SWOON(SWORN) W(WHEN) A(ALL) THE AUS(GOLD’S) DUE & AR(OUR) BOXES CHEST AR(ARE) – C(SEE) V(FIVE) MEN AS HDS R(ARE) WITH N RATS C(SEE) RE(ARE) VAULT N(IN) & C(SEE) MEN – AND AS PEOPLE CONQUER EQUIO REQUEST V(FIVE) MEN N(AN) AX R(ARE) FLTENOW(FLAT TEN NOW) OF JEWELS GEMS E(AND)VAULTS OF COINS IN HEAVY IVY I SEE ARRS(OURS) – LLS BOX – TAENIE(SMALL, EMPTY UNTIL NOW) VAULTS OF COINS GOLD BARS ANDUMP(AND DUMP) SNUG AL(ALL SNUG) – ONLY SAE(SAY) ARRS(OURS) IS INASH( IN ASH? or IN NASH) NEVRMORE(NEVERMORE) – THEE(THE) HEAVY ON/NEL(ONE) TOSS C(100) HOT JEWELS OUT – ALL OF BEALISTEN (BEALE LIST TEN) MENEED(MEN NEED) MADE OR ATHEAVY( AT THE HEAVY) ON REQUEST OF JOE R CONN – TODAY I AGE OLD THOMAS J BEALS(BEALES) LAST BOW CASH JEWELS.
This has been an exciting undertaking for me and I think that someone could put this to good use in locating The Beale Treasure. Syntax has to be looked at when deciphering the “B3” Paper. There are some names, locations, and abbreviations mentioned that need to further researched also. I hope that someone will soon make a new search for the unfound Beale stash! Thanks very much.
Rick A. Roberts
I made a typo in the second line. It should read; “ALL THE VAULTS…”. Thanks.
Rick A. Roberts
Well…I’ve made two overtures to Crytologia to publish my entire Beale Proof…provided they tell me how I can conform my proof to their publishing guidelines. I’ve gotten emails stating they’ve gotten my query..but no answer. At this point I dare them to let me publish….
Paul,
What do you think of my deciphering of The Beale Treasure “3” Paper that I posted on 14FEB2014 ? I would like to get some feedback and or thoughts about this.
Did you decipher Paper “1”, “2” and “3” ? Did you have differed findings from other decoded works that others have done? Would you like to use or quote my “3” Beale Paper deciphering in your book? When you get your book published, I would like to purchase one.
Upon deciphering the “3” Paper I did not find a complete list of the thirty persons that the treasure was to divided among. However I did find some initial s and names. Especially Joe R. Conn. I tied to find someone with this name in Virginia circa 1819 to 1820, but I could not do so. I am beginning to wonder if he was from St. Louis or else where? Perhaps from where the area that the group started out from?
Rick A. Roberts
I think any decryption that makes no sense at all is suspect.
H (Here) Las (Lies) ha (the) tylr (treasure)
And any alleged “decryption” that involves freemasonry and esoteric stuff sounds like the work of the lunatic fringe….
It’s either a hoax or out-of-date (and probably useless) directions to some money. Even if there was money, who says it hasn’t been discovered by someone who knows nothing of the Beale Papers over the last two hundred years?
What do you think of my deciphering of the Beale Paper “3”? I think that it makes sense. Many people think that it had a list of thirty persons and their relatives that the treasure was to be divided among. However my translation of the message only mentions a few names and abbreviations. Finding out who the people were has been very difficult.
It would be nice to know there is any group of people planning to legally search for the Beale Treasure after this winter is over?
Does anyone else out there have a deciphering of the Beale Paper “3” to post? Thank you,
Rick A.Roberts
is this site still active?
Manny: why, yes it is. 🙂 Is there some Beale Papers news I’ve missed?
ive been deep into this since 1988 and my conclude is zilch withjout the key is useless to pursue time to get a life and if by chance you get a hankerin to follow up good luck solvin this is like winnin the lottery if youre meant to solve so be it good luckb hope it doesnt cost you much but your time it sure ruined luck is the key get it number 80 to 89ine
do you think ward would have given the exact locality of bufords tavern if it wasnt a desperate attempt for some one to solve the cypher and have to go to him to geyt more proper info if i solved paper two i would have come up with some plan to moreorless dupe the solver to come forwardso as i coild corrroberate his info with mine [secret] to really lead me to the locale
thomas jefferson beale i know in his time he was financially strapped had to sell off alot was acypher genious named after a famous pres who was in receivership at the time probably had hlf breed sons eand daughters had ti sell his favorites i would have sent out west to escape the auction blockjust a notion father protct his son who named their son after pres slaves half breeds and it seemed the biggest threat at the time was having to come back to virghinia i thoght about all this over the years i think you could investigate history and write a book on american history that would open alot of other books about how the west was really won how many sons of pres and wealthy plantation owners were sent out west to escape bankruptcy foreclosure and auction i know if it was my half breed son or daught i would try anything to protect them and thats how i arrived at the understanding of why beale would leave the comforts of virginia to roam the west as a freeman and how wealth wouldvtake a backseat to freedom as a maN AND ITS NOT A MATTER OF SOLVING BUT UNDERSTANDING THAT MAKES A MAN WEALTHY THE ANSWER IS CONTAINED WITHIN GOOD LUCK AND LONG LIFE
EVERY TIME I LOOK UP THE BEALE CODES I GET DISHEARTENED BY THE SERIOUSNESS VOF SOME OF THE PARTICIPANTS IF YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THE OLD MAPS OF VIRGHINIA CONNETICVUT IN THOSE DAYS THEY WRENT ALL THE WAY TOWARDS MISSOURI THERE WERE 6 AREAS NAMED BUFORDS NOT TAVERN BUTBUFORDS AS FAR AS WEST VIRGINIA KENTUCKY DO YOU THINK WARDBWOULD NOT HAVE GIVEN MISINFORMATION AS TO THE COUNTY I SURE WOILD NOT GIVE THAT INFO UP AFTER SPENDING SO MUCH TIME SOLVING I WOULD HAVE GIVEN ANOTHER LOCALE AND CHANGED THE ORIGINAL DECYPHER TO FIT MY PLAN HOPING SOMEONE WOULD SOLVE 2 ITS ONLY COMMON SENSE THAT SO MANY PEOPLE WOULD EVENTUALLY SOLVE IT MY CONCLUSION IS THAT WARD IN HIS GREED MADE THIS CYPHER MUCH HARDER TO SOLVE AND OVER THE YEARS ITS BECOME UNSOLVABLE FIRST YOU HAVE TO FILTER OUT THE BULLSHIT THEN IF YOU HAVE GOOD LUCK YOLL HAPPEN ON A WAY TO FIGURE ITEITHER YOU FIND IT OR ALL ELSE FAILS YOULL FIND SOMETHING ABOUT YOURSELF AND I HOPE THATS A GOOD TREASURE GOD BLESS YOU
EITHER IT BE GENIOUS OR A DOG CHASING A RABBIT OR SOME BUFOON TRIPING OVER HIS UNTIED SHOELACE AND STUMBLING ON THE CACHE I HOPE IT HAPPENS IN MY LIFETIME CAUSE WERE NOT HERE FOREVER AND I SURE WOULD LIKE TO TELL SOMEBODY IN THE NEXT LIFESUMPTIN THEY DIDNT KNOW
COME ON BEFOR WARD CAME ALONG THE CODE MOST LIKELY WAS SOLVABLE BUT THE THOIGHT OF RICHES CORRUPTS MANY IF NOT ALLIN A GREEDY VAIN ATTEMPT TO GAIN IT AAND TO SOLVE HIS ROADBLOCK HE DEVISED THIS SCAM NOT REALIZING HE COMPLICA ALONG WITH THE UNSOLVED FILED AND PUT IT IN THESAMECATEGORY AS THE GORDIAN KNOT AND GREEK FIRE UNLESS YOURE THE LUCKIEST FUCK THIS CANNOT BE SOLVED MATHEMATICALLY THIS I KNOW IVE EXERCISED THIS DAILY SINCE1988 I HAVE CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE EARTH 24,000 TIMES ON THIS CODE ITS CORRUPT AND CANT BE SOLVED RELINQUISH IT TO UNSOLVED MYSTERIES AND LOOK FOR OTHER PURSUITS
IN CONCLUSION MR SPELLING I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOUR VREADERS THE WHEREABOUTS OF THE BEALE TREASURE ITS CONTAINED IN THE EDGAR ALLEN POE STORY THE RAVEN THE ANSWER TO THE CYPHER IS NRVERMORE
MR PELLING IN ALL HINDSIGHT SURELY YOU KNOW THIS PURSUIT IS A LOST CAUSE A WASTE OF BRAINTIME BETTER TO OPEN UP NEW WANDERINGS FOR YOUR FOLLOWERS THAN THIS AFFIRMED DEADEND THERE IS NO CONCLUSION AND NEVER WILL BE UNLESS YOURE THE SECOND COMING GET ON WITH IT AND ENOUGH OF THIS ENDLESSV LIFE SCREWUP WILD GOOSE CHASE THAT WILL NEVER BE SOLVED UNLESS YOIU CAN RESSUSECT JAMES WARD AND ASK HIM WHYB HE BESMIRCHED A GOOD MANS MIND OVER WEALTHJ
com on man: I’m sorry to hear that you’ve lost so much of your time in pursuit of its treasure. In general, I find writing about cipher mysteries can be quite a difficult balancing act: even though people enjoy reading about them, I would never advise anybody to invest a lot of their time into trying to solve them.
it became a mission to just solve the dam thing but later it became a historical pursuit to find out why this man would just hideaway great wealth and live in dangerous adventure i started admiring this and solving the cypher became a key to my curiosity of such an interesting personand i would know so i think to learn what kind of a man is this that became my first quest the treasure ithoughts i put on the backburn er i have had some exciting moments i thought i had solved it but it never properly panned out for instance 89 76 11 83 appears on the first line and backwards near the end of the cypher this made me think it was mathematical however all my formulas pointed that i thought ward did not disclose the full cypher perhaps taking out the middle section of numbers he held back as his ace in the hole insuring him a piece of the treasure so that whoever solved it would have to seek him out if i solved what is given it woukld be of no use to me it would be incomplete
ive finished working on the beale codes but im still interested in knowing if the grave name I found in my decodes means anything Iive traced the plot number to ROCK CREEK CEMETRY WHERE POE,S SISTER ROSLYN IS BURIED AND ONE RELATION BURIED IN 1820THE NAME IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR IS JAYS ZEBIDAYZE.PLOT RC
OOne of my decode keys gives plaintext of some of the gillodgy string scode position 194.
113= 5 then add the preceding
added code digits twice
113-5+ 10=15=O
6-6+ 10=16=P
140-5+ 12= 17=Q
8-8+ 10= 18=R
120-3+ 16= 19=S I THINK THIS IS A BETTER COINCIDENCE THAN EIN FEN DUE.I NOTICE IM STILL THE ONLY ONE EVER TO PUT MY METHODS ON THE INTERNET
=S
Stan, I placed my deciphering of #3 back in February of this this year on this site. I came up with a few names and some abbreviations.
The location of CEEY or City Lens/ Hole Lens, Virginia came up also. Is this another name for Rock Creek? What do you think the “RC” represents in your deciphering? Is it “Right Corner”?
Your method of deciphering is very interesting. Do you have any plans of trying to locate the cemetery and location of the treasure in the near future?
What do you think of my deciphering that I posted back in February of this year? Are you going to publish a book on the Beale Treasure? Thanks,
Rick A. Roberts
Hi RICK.YES I HAVE PUBLISHED A BOOK CALLED THE BEALE TREASURE MAP TO CIPHER SUCCESS WHICH SHOWS WHOLE DECODED SENTENCES LIKE. IN THE COUNTY OF BEDFORD JOINTLY OWNED. AND LENORE LOVE OLD POE..A BIT OF THE GILLODGY STRINGS. AND ON THE BALCONY.AT THE END. WITH ALL THE METHOD FOR DECODING THEM. THE NAME JAYS ZEBIDAYZE IS IN IT SOMEWHEREI I CONTACTED THE POE SOCIETY THEY REPLIED AND SAID THEY KNEW KNEW NOTHING ABOUT POES INVOLVMENT WITH THE BEALE CODE THE GEORGE MARSHALL INSTITUTE DIDNT WANT TO KNOW AND THE CIPHER SCHOOL AT FORT MEAD WAS ON HOLIDAY AND NEVER REPLIED TO MY SAMPLES.SO I GAVE UP I TRIED TO GET ON TO FREE CEMETRY SEARCHES BUT THEY WERE ALL DEAD ENDS MY BOOK ISBN 978-178-0353470COST 8 ENGLISH POUNDS FROMwww.fast-print-net/store.php Stan Clayton
Stan,
I plan to purchase a copy of your book soon. I have relatives who do not live too far away from Bedford County, Virginia. I hope to get down there this summer. Although, I do not know if I will make it over to Bedford county.
Did you come across the name Joe R. Conn in your deciphering or research?
Do you think that the Beale Treasure might be buried in the cemetery? Thanks.
Nick, I have a website where I explain the long strings of letters in cipher 1 and many other things about The Beale Papers. It is the result of 12 years of my investigations.
The website is thethomasjbealehoax.com
Comments can also be sent to Richard [email protected]
to rick roberts june 12 20 years ago a couple were prosecuted for tearing up graves in an old church cemetery im pretty sure in 1819-21 desecrating a grave or cemetery usually resulted in hanging a party of people digging in a cemetery in those days would have been noticed by a church official or congregation i thoght i had the cypher solved in1995 using the cemetery angle but as you delve deeper into the cypher you come across alot of different scenarios you start looking outside the cypher for angles for solving i have concluded the only way to solve it is to keep playing the numbers if youre lucky youll solve it
What happened to the review?
Everyone on this site- My proof is almost done. Its taken a lot longer than intended because I’ve been working in China most of this year. I intend however to send it out to everyone and their uncle who wants a copy. Anyone (even those who think my proof is part of the “lunatic fringe”!), who is interested in receiving it please email me at [email protected] and I will send it you free of charge. I’m hoping I might finish it by Feb 2015. I guarantee that it won’t disappoint.
Hi Nick,
I am working on a form of secret writing I call “Literary Steganography” that links the Sonnets (attributed to William Shakespeare), written by the 17th Earl of Oxford (Edward de Vere), to Ralph Waldo Emerson who had discovered the same form of secret writing (in the Sonnets) and utilized it in his steganographic poetry (he created an American national treasure hunt ). The Sonnets are a hidden narrative that runs consecutively; the narrative is a personal dialogue with future emanate (Emerson), then myself later in time. Emerson and Edgar Allan Poe both knew this secret and used it in their work…Poe, namely, in his tale “The Gold Bug”. Project Red Knee, the conduit for the discovery of Literary Steganography, is also the conduit for the solution of six locations of suspected wealth associated with the Beale Papers mystery. The sites have been worked to location and are untouchable due national historical sites. A seventh site (confidential) is soon to be…… well, I say, confidential – sorry. The near future proves to be an exciting time. The entire mystery goes back as far as, at least, Elizabeth I of England; it includes the hiding of an ancient treasure of antiquity near Oak Island, Nova Scotia and much more. The “chestnut” is long over due to be told; I will commence soon. Anyone that wishes to contribute to this line of discussion is encouraged; to talk to me privately, please write: [email protected]
una sola pregunta porque el numero 1 sale una sola ves y los demás números se repiten dos y hasta tres veces
el 1 es clase infinita de un área
entoces 1 es un área determinada en el infinito
Is this site active?
Justin: why yes, this site is very active. 🙂
Justin:
Why, what do you believe?
http://www.thebealekey.com
The Key will merely state the contents of the vault, which the DOI is key, with an exact location. A DECLARATION with an exact location on it, for it will easily be found… The letter from St. Louis to Morriss, is the key to the Key, it says and I quote, The Key Is in the Hands of a friend(my dear friend Morriss, Your Friend TJB), “Sealed in this place”(were is it sealed, the Box left in Morriss’s charge, endorsed,(a signed DOI with an exact location).. the key has to meet Key criteria, lol…the Key and story is very real. Much older, in a time when Bedford was less populated, that was there delima, and time lapse was part of there plan, the Beale Pamphlet was am an attempt to locate the missing key, probably by the ones that Beale spoke of impersonating his party, see the ones that refused were the only ones that knew of the party existing, probably Risqué was one, ward being grandson…probably reason for the duel… The Key has Been found, and the vault located, so good luck…..Thanks Justintime.
http://www.thebealekey.com
🙂
justintime….I’ve heard much about you from “Eldo”. We talk. Nice work. Inquire of him about me. Later.
http://www.thebealekey.com
🙂
PTSNS,STSTOTTLTSAI,DSTSTOTLTA,TSHSSH,*STS
TOTA*AHD*SPSH,HSIO*TAHHHLTSHHLTYTSHTS,HP,O*N,L
T,SSAPTASTSTPTTLSAASI,TTS,HASI,TASI,TTS,HAHDTS,H
ASI,TTDSA,ISHOSALHSTS,STS,SHLTYHAATTLSATSHTSHA
HDTSHLSHHTDSA,A*OA*AS,HATA*NHO
If ‘B2’ could be decoded the Declaration of Independence,
is it possible that B1 and B3 can be decoded using other important American documents? If so which documents have been tried? The Louisiana Purchase Treaty?
hey there…looking for more cipher mysteries????……..
I give you this:6-10 4-03-20-14-15-24-18-31 32-38-11-8-52
47-46 9-22-7-34-63 08-60-02-66(36)
I am a modern living expert on cryptography….I believe it is impossible to anyone crack my secret codes and ciphers,so with friendly motive I CHALLENGE YOU give a try!!!!
Has anyone tried a certain book of the bible or something written by Quakers (key in hands of friends). I just learned this cipher exists and am fascinated.
Hi Angie…here’s where you should concentrate on for Beale:
http://www.thebealekey.com
1+2+3+4+5+6+ ………. 33+34+35+36 = ????
And, here’s my effort to promote Project Red Knee, a product of the Beale Papers:
http://irnfiles.com/audio/NVRBauman.mp3
[email protected]
The letters state that without the aid of a key, not keys. The letters state that the key will “merely” state the contents of the vault with an exact location. Meaning that the key is a Declaration of Independence with a map or maps on it. There is no number one or three cipher, one is the DOI, number three can be found, with the individual portions in the vault. Were was this key? Look at the letter from St Louis, we’re it talks about the box, it says, In this place”Sealed” the gun was with the bullets, lol….Thanks
Jim Gillogly’s Beale sequence with two number before it.
Having fun with the Beale Papers and Substitution Cipher
112 18 (147 436 195 320 37 122 113 6 140 8 120 305 42 58 461 44 106 301 13 408)
147 = A
301 = h
305 = k
AHK Hebrew term for “brother.”
120 = J
106 = o
6 = h
44 = n
42 = L
13 = P
140 = i
408 = p
37 = e
112 = r
320 = D
8 = i
113 = g
461, 58 = M M = 2000 Roman Numerals
18, 195, 436, 122 = BFBF left of 22 letters 18 used
What can you get from this sequence, I was quite surprised !
THE CRYPTO STRAND, PAGE 1, PAGE 2 AND PAGE 3 AUTHENTICATED CIPHER PAGE NUMBERS
How to tell what cipher is page 1,2 and 3
The page of cipher with 700+ characters starts with the number 115
The page of cipher with 600+ characters starts with the number 317
The page of cipher with 500+ characters starts with the number 71
From here we can see after the 700+ C2 was decoded back in 1865 or so we can see a pattern.
71 ( 1 ) > 115 < ( 3 ) 317
115
Roman Numeral 2
DOI Separation=(71) on DOI
Stan Clayton & All,
Stan, I read your post inquiring about a ” JAY TRUST “, and or its religious connection . Were you referring to John Jay who lived from 1745 to 1829 and served as the First President of the Continental Congress, Governor of New York, Secretary of State, Author of some of the articles of the ” Federalist Papers “, President of the American Bible Society, and Day Heritage Center among other positions during his lifetime ? He had estates in both Bedford, New York, and Rye, New York . He was a member of the Church of England and later the Protestant Church in America . He believed that the way to peace in the world was by Christian Propagation . Also, he was against mob rule and slavery . John Jay wrote articles 2, 3, 4, 51, and 64 of the ” Federalist Papers ” . I believe that in one of these articles is the key to deciphering the remaining Beale Papers .
If he wanted the treasure to go to the correct owners, why would he make it so hard to decipher. If the guy who broke the metal box and found a copy of the Declaration of Independence hidden in the bottom, then, in my opinion, the one document would be the key to all 3 cipers – just sayin’
V. Lloyd: there’s a difference between being hard to decipher (i.e. knowing the trick, and with a key) and being hard to decrypt (i.e. not knowing the trick, and not having a key).
There are very good reasons to conclude that – exactly as you suggest – the same cryptographic key (i.e. Beale’s oddly-numbered Declaration of Independence) will work not just for B2, but for B1 and B3 as well. The problem is that it looks as though there’s a trick we’re missing as well. 🙁
This is lovely stuff! It is so very interesting. I have a hunch though that perhaps he used an ottendorf cipher mixed with a book cipher. Just a suggestion. It could be coordinats and not letters after all
Nathaniel: I’m pretty sure that the apparent presence of plaintext strings such as ABFDEFGHIIJKLMMNOHPP in B1 is a very strong indication that we’re painfully close to an answer using little more than the stuff we already have in our hands. We’re staring it in the face, basically. 🙁
Rozwiązanie 3 szyfrów matematycznych THOMAS BEALE:
1. Gwiazdozbiór SMOKA ale bez GŁOWY SMOKA
2. GŁOWA SMOKA
3. Gwiazdozbiór ANDROMEDA
4. Liczba 1706 – Benjamin Franklin, USA.
POLAND, Gdynia, Leokadia Janiszewska, 31.05.2016
Dear Nick,
As of Memorial Day Weekend, I started to get interesting “noise” from Beale 1. I stashed the progress I made into a Dropbox folder, and was wondering if I could show it to you. I am not calling this a final solve just yet — but if this is not the answer at least I have found an interesting way to encrypt something. Please let me know the best way get the info to you.
Thanks.
–Cat
Cat: please feel free to email me a link at my Latinized email address: nickpellingus atus nickpellingus dotus comus (without the -us bits). 🙂
Though (just so you know) I’m unlikely to be able to respond for a fair few days, so please don’t expect a superquick reply. 🙁
So if paper number 1’s highest number is 2906 then obviosly it couldnt be the DOI as the cipher. But it stil seems like it is a book chiper so what if you took the date of the writing of the ciphers 1819-1820 and took any important/Famous documents /Books or writings before 1820 and then checked the number of words it has and rule out the one’s consisting of the amount of words being less than 2906 and then checking those Documents/ Books to see if they fit the cipher
Also BTW i am very interested is coes and ciphers and that ind of thing u guys seem 2 have a lot of knowledge of them coul anyone help me become better at coes and ect,?
Brandon: the fact that B1 both has stats that point to the same DoI source as B2 and yet apparently has number entries that are too high for it is a really interesting thing. I really ought to do a post on that, it really isn’t necessary to start looking anywhere else… 🙂
Nick: So if i understand what you are saying correctly you agree that the numbers being 2 high is interesting but you dont agree in the idea of searching for other keys
Nickpelling do u run this site? if not do u know who does?
i agree we should look at the louisiana purchase treaty because:
1. IDK just a hunch and…
2. Thomas Jefferson Beale had hid the treasure and Thomas Jefferson made the Louisiana purchase treaty
Don’t know whether you’ve seen this….it’s something I read a long, long time ago and always meant to post here, but could never find it again. It’s an interesting idea on the Gillogly strings….(It’s been around a long time, so you might have seen them already)
http://www.angelfire.com/pro/bealeciphers/Page27.htm
I do have a beleif that the louisiana purchase treaty documents could be the key to #1 i don’t really have the time to number it but could i ask any one who is interested to plz number it then send it to my email DeathlyNinja2A (at) gmail (dot) com?
Dear Nick,
I think I am going to try to look at Cipher 2 again in light of the “noise” production from Cipher 1. In particular, I *think* (and this is stretching my poor, overworked brain cells really far) that Cipher 2, although a book cipher, may hold another message in the style of Cipher 1, levels 3 and 4 *if* we put in in the original line format and then marked all the “miscounted” numbers after word 490 in the Beale’s Version of the word-counted Declaration of Independence. If I am right, there may be more interesting stuff to be found. If not, then at least I will have put forth a quaint and sneaky way to hide a second message in a common book-cipher.
After decoding the Beale ciphers and working it to a final draft. I found a cipher within the ciphers. The first page after decoding holds the epitaph of Thomas Beale over 100 of the 500+ characters in the cipher hold this information. There is also some reference to Los Lunas New Mexico. More information later!
Stan Clayton and others,
On 14FEB14 I deciphered the “B3” Paper. I just finished rereading a message that Stan left on the Dorabella cipher Site about the Cemetery and name on the headstone that he was seekin. In my deciphering, I found the name “CSTER” (CHESTER?) “DAVEE”(DAVIES?) and “STATUR”(STATURE?) or could it be “STATUE?”, now that I study it more? So, locate the CHESTER DAVIES STATUE at the cemetery(Perhaps located at City Lens or Hole Lens, Virginia. I believe that i have made an important find here.
I just looked at a posting by on 23OCT13 by Duncan Walters. He refers to Stan Clayton’s book as to the location of the gold. ” … North … West 500 feet from the monument … “. My hope is that the Chester Davies Statue(Monument) is found and that the treasure is 500 feet to the West of it”. Stan had come up with the name of “JAYS ZEBIDAYSE”.
El Dorado is a myth. Lasseter’s Reef a delusion. The Nazi gold train at Walbrzych; click-bait. However, lots of people in Hollywood know Beale’s treasure is hidden in the grave beside Arch Stanton’s; marked: unknown.
Stan Clayton,
Have you had any success in locating the monument with the name ” JAYS ZEBIDAYSE ” ? Did you see my previous posting about the Chester Davies Statue(Monument) ? West … 500 feet from the statue ?
The Beale is broken. The man responsible is walking you through the decipherment process at http://www.thebealemystery.org . Contact at [email protected]
20102,
Please see my deciphering of B3 Paper on 14FEB14 that I posted. Chester Davies statue, Rock Creek Cemetery, Hole Lens, Virginia or City Lens, Virginia. Joe R. Conn. ” TODAY I AGE OLD THOMAS J. BEALES LAST BOW CASH JEWELS “.
G’day,
I’m curious, if B2 was (almost) a complete book cipher that could be decripted fairly easily once the key document was found, then wouldnt it stand to reason that B1 and B3 would follow the same rule?
I understand I’m new to the mystery however my thinking would be that someone (especially someone who, at the time perhaps, was aware that a level of encryption was required, however, not being able to make a sure estimate of colleagues abilities to follow his decryption method, wouldnt make it overly complicated. Considering levels of education in the mid 1800’s) writing these cipher’s would start at 1 then 2 then 3 – using the same system for each, just different key texts.
As has perviously been discussed, if the pamphlet mention 1 key and it was used to decipher B2, could it be that using the same copy of the DOI , with a different way of interpreting/reading the key be an appropriate method to use?
I’m quite keen on discussing or finding out what methods have been used in relation to interpreting the DOI that have or have not been explored.
Please feel free to refute or dissasemble my conjecture.
All discussion welcomed as this seems to be the best place I’ve found so far on the interwebs for these kind of topics. Thanks Nick for facilitating!
Chris: your reasoning is perfectly sound as far as it goes – with the only problem being that I’ve tried a whole load of things exactly along the lines you describe (both manually and with the help of AZdecrypt) without any luck whatsoever.
The Gillogly/Hammer patterns that appear in B1’s attempted plaintext if you use the same DOI in B2 (and that appear even more improbable if you correct the DOI as per the various fixes suggested to correct B2) are a powerful ‘tell’ (a) that B2’s DOI was indeed used to construct B1; and (b) that the same homophone tables used to construct B2 (albeit in some different manner) were also used to construct B1. So you’re definitely looking in the right area, if that’s any consolation. 🙂
I have a question,
What is the format of the Beale Papers?
What form of a Paper is it?
1885 there were only a few and it’s not a novel.
Not a hard question at all.
Once I have finished the work I have yet ahead of me, who would be a good few persons to confirm I have indeed deciphered the 3 Ciphers?
I am really only looking at the fact that I am the first one to decipher them correctly and to show how they were cracked.
Thank you
As a Beale Enthusiast, I have been working on part-time on the Beale Cyphers since 1980. During that time I have swung from true believer to sceptic many times. However, I did uncover an interesting publication during my investigations that may interest many of you.
In a book “100 Tons of Gold” by David Leon Chandler (published by Doubleday in 1978), there is a story about gold treasure inside the Victorio Peak, New Mexico. What interests me, is the part of the story that tells of 21 skeletons found inside the cave containing the gold. Since this number closely corresponds to the number of men in Beale’s group of treasure hunters and in roughly in the same area described in Beale’s letters – it might explain why none of the party ever returned to Virginia to claim their treasure.
James Schaefer: there are countless books about the Victorio Peak treasure cache, ranging all the way from it-was-a-con-job-there-weren’t-ever-no-treasure-theyar-hoss to LBJ-done-stole-it-from-the-Nosses-I-swear-it’s-true-so-help-me-Gahhd.
It would be a wonderful thing if this proved to be connected to the story in the Beale Papers, but from what we currently know I’d say that the odds of that being the case were slim to zero, sorry. 🙁
Hey all what up? I heard many year’s back about the Beale Treasure and the Map its nothing but a farce. The newspaper in that county in that town was going under, the owner of the newspaper made it all up. The moment he put the story of the treasure/ gold/ silver/ gems whatever was supposed to be in the chest he made it all up. Think about it.. He newspaper man tries deciphering the map with the code’s. There are three one tells how much – 1. Amount buried; 2. The people who are due to receive the gold; 3. Where it is buried. Ok so which does he break first? 😂 He breaks/ solves the one with the amount buried he used the Constitution to do it right?. Than suddenly he absolutely cannot break/ figure out the other two??? REALLY…..COME ON PEOPLE, HE SCAMMED THE GOOD PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA OR WHEREVER ITS SUPPOSED TO BE BURIED. But guess what your relation/ friends paid good money for a treasure book that was a complete farce however be joyful your money wasnt used in vain your money went for the good of bringing back a dying newspaper that was surely about to go under, until Mr Beale came in with a report of a fabulous mine him and his friends were working in full of riches. Have a wonderful evening all.
Is or was there a City Lens, Virginia or Hole Lens, Virginia? Does anyone have any new progress in solving the Beale Treasure Ciphers?
Hey I kinda need help with a map from that time showing the diversion of land between James Madison Thomas gates george Somers Richard Hackluit and others I have what it says to do in c1 but there is no map showing the boundaries to tell what it’s talking about does anyone know where one is
It took me 5 hrs to crack and actually makes sense and complete sentences describing the boundaries and how far away it is from one of them I just can’t find the boundary
Aundrae, did you come across the name Joe R. Conn ? What about Chester Davies Statue in Rock Creek Cemetery in City Lens or Hole Lens, Virginia ? Location I found of treasure was 500 feet from Chester Davies Statue.
Hello all! I hope newcomers are welcome. Now that the Fenn treasure is found I need a new hunt! I spent 5 years at Fort Meade, and live in DC. Would love to participate as this is more local to me and I love codes!
Foxtrot: I’ll be your huckleberry! Just joking! But I’m also new to this group. I’m a treasure hunter and there is a difference between decipher and treasure hunter. The treasure hunter relies more on clues and common sense where a decipher is skilled in finding the clues. Deciphering is a tough skill, it’s like putting a puzzle together but don’t know how it goes. You can learn some things about deciphering here. When it’s all said and done the deciphering doesn’t exactly tell the exact location and that’s where the treasure hunter comes in cause he can relate to the findings. I’ll explain!
Foxtrot:
For instance, I look for clues and the earliest clues are your most important because they have not been tainted with smoke. Other new clues have to agree with the situation at hand in order to define whether the story is true. Clues, story setting, and common sense will bring out the possibilities of whether the story is true and it will provide a location. If you do not stay focus, you could end up with a million possibilities that don’t make sense! Focus! I’ll explain again!
Take this early 1800’s story for example, you’ll find that they have mention several different years like 1817,1819, 1820 or 2821. In order to think like a pirate you must know the pirate! The only way to know him is to try to be him by historical accounts. This particular adventurer went west at a time when there was barely anything out there. He found a treasure by description, he did not buried the treasure all in the same place. He did not want anybody to know except, his family members which were not with him based on the dangers of the new territory. He managed to secure the treasure in three location, before admitting to taking a long trip that might take him ten years. Before leaving he left a treasure map with a good friend in case he did not make it back. Now with all due respect I expect that every one to be kind in providing a generous finders fee to be given to this web site if you use any in formation provided here to find the treasure. I’ll explain more later.
There is many reasons why one might not make it back from a long trip. Maybe he was wanted by the law where he was heading or the items he had acquired belonged to some one else? Who knows? Supposedly, he knew the possibility of him not making it back for what ever reason, but that reason would still allow him to send his friend the key to the treasures. Something went wrong and he never came back. The number 3 and 4 were mention in miles of where the treasure was buried, but being that close to a tavern just don’t make sense when you have a great deal of treasure especially when you don’t own the land and it’s all flatlands to include possible on lookers. The number 3 and 4 don’t play, at this stage of the ball game. Now! Burying treasure in some mountain makes sense. They say, that pages 1 and 2 contain clues to the first page so that you can find the treasure? So, page 1 carries the final clue to the location. I’m not going to just tell you where it’s at! I’m going to tell you how he did it and why? I’ll explain next! So treasure hunters from Virginia, get ready to define if the story is true!
I’m going to wait till Monday, hopefully by then I hear if anybody is pay attention. If no one is paying attention then there is reason to continue right now. We need participation so that different people get to find the treasures. Although I provided enough information to get a head start if you know what I’m talking about. We need people to text here to continue on this treasure hunting search
Why wait? Lets get over with it! In the late 1817 Beale and some of his treasure made it back to Virginia at the start of winter. He went passed the local tavern traveling the old road to Lexington, he proceeded for miles towards a place he had been before. Instead of taking the Appalachian trail, like he had done before, he choose to go two miles further. About 19 miles from the tavern he took a right on a trail that let him to the top of the hill. There he could see anybody whose was coming or going to Lexington and at the same time he could spy on the Appalachian trail. As soon as it was clear, he made his way down to the Appalachian trail and followed the trail until he spotted an area for his treasure.
He went a little further to make sure no one was watching. He took a right into the woods at about 4 miles from the old Lexington rd. He headed due west looking to see if anybody was following and at the same time going deeper into the woods until he found a good place to buried his first treasure. He counted the steps to be 63 to be exact by the numbers he plotted on the first page. He said if you find the first one you will find the other two. His venture started in 1817 which is the first clue to find on the first cipher page. Below that is the 19 in front of the 4 and the following numbers describe the steps. As you move up to the right you’ll find the second one and third one further up. The third one is hidden by not having the space after the comma. Tricky! I know! I almost missed it! For story sake I’m continuing to tell the story.
He waited till 1818 to make another run. The second time he passed the tavern again going as far as 28 miles. There he took a right on a trail that was going up between two hills where he could spy on the surrounding area. He then followed the same trail for about 4 miles. He took a right again due west looking behind to make sure no one following. This time it was 122 steps to the treasure. He buries his last treasure in 1819 by going 30 miles on Lexington rd before taking a right. About 4 miles into the trail he took another right due west 88 steps to the location of that treasure. I don’t think that there was more steps to go by, since he said, he wanted to make sure it was an easy find, but I’m sure that he left something behind that someone can identify as a back up plan. Good luck to all who want to put an ending to this story!
Foxtrot : this for you, I found the monument that he referred to when he buried the first treasure. I was off a little, but I corrected myself cause I wasn’t too sure about the direction according to what was decipher. If you answer me I will tell you.
Foxtrot: At about 19 miles from Buford’s tavern on the road to Lexington is a left turn and an off road trail that goes east to the top of a hill. You go up the hill and then down the hill across the Appalachian Trail straight ahead until you find a ridge that has white rock. Descend on the east side of the ridge and go west along the wall 63 steps to the location where the treasure is buried.
Interesting
Ramiro where did you get all your info? Just curious as everything else I have read in here people are at least showing their work for the most part.
Here is one thing that I am having difficulty with…….if all 30 of the team did not return why is there no mention of such a mass disappearance of men from the area of Bedford? Surely there would be mention in a paper somewhere of the party that went west and never returned?? Has anybody come across such information?
Variable19: I guess you’d have to ask that question to someone who believes the Beale Papers are a historical record of something that actually happened. My reading is that the Beale Papers are cipher backfill, i.e. campfire tales wrapped around a genuinely mysterious historical cipher.
Also in the area of Fauquier county wouldnt we find some sort of mention of the missing party if they were from this area?
Nick, I am more of the skeptic then the believer but my job forces me to look at all angles. I guess I am looking at clues to prove the story false by looking for actual things that should be available to the average amateur sleuth. In other words if the story was true shouldn’t there be some recording somewhere in some paper or article discussing the loss of so many people? Even if you look into several surrounding counties 30 missing people would not go unnoticed during that time frame. Even in the Revolutionary war it was common to see the loss of so many people reported missing from a given geographical area.
Nick, I am a skeptic more than a believer for sure however my job forces me to look at different angles. In essence I try to disprove something by trying to prove it true if that makes sense. I would figure that during this timeframe 30 missing people , even from different counties within the same region, would be found mentioned somewhere in the papers. Or at the very least within the oral history of the area. Has anyone ever explored this or found any mention of this to your knowledge?
Ramiro Valdez,
Where are you getting your information from?
I am born and raised here in Bedford, this story has been told to me since I was a small child by grandparents from both sides of my family. I have become increasingly interested in this topic. I know the area very very well and have been an avid hiker for sometime now.
Thanks,
K
To all you people who think you have solved B1, you are 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% probably wrong. If you think most of the numbers are random, you are most definitely wrong; a) none of the numbers from the second document are random, and b) that is probably just an excuse for the gibberish that has resulted from a bad key.If you turn out to be right, I’ll eat this computer I’m typing at right now.
I have cracked page 1 of the Beale papers. It doesn’t describe the location of a buried treasure. It’s just random ramblings. My guess is that both the message and the text used as the key were written by the same individual, and that person would be Robert Morriss, not Thomas J. Beale.
The Message:
LOAD GRIEF INSTEAD SITE DIED MISERY SCOLD BRAT PEACE HIT RATE RATIO EMREE DO EARNED I SOME SMILES OR BLAMED SO PEAKED A SLY FOE AND NO DROP SO STEAL LORD MIND A DREAD MISPLAY BED DEPTH HEY YOUR NOMINEE DEIGN SLY BOSOM RIB SON DEFORM SENATE STAY NEED TO TAG HAUL HUGE BEAD GLOOM ME AMNESIC ME ACT AND LIFT VERY GOD AT NOBLE LIE HIS TIE POINT SON I SIN FEND OR BEG DREG TO BOO RARE OMNIVORE SIR TEA ARBOR STAY BE VAST ALSO A POET RETREAT PAL CANCER ALLUDE I MADE OPTIONS I DRIFT TRIP A GOAL I ALIGN SECT NIECE SPIT OMEN AT SPONSORS MODEL TEST DO LEAP BET EDGIEST BEING IS KAPUT DEPUTY SERVE DEITY TO HELP WOE TRUE FAWN ADOPT SPEARS I LET MORE RESUMPTION
The incomplete text (lowercase letters are guesses)
From 1 to 141:
RECENTLY BRIDGE SEEM To REVOLVE ON FAtE POET ANDREW OaTh I BEG UrgE GoD DONT SIDE A SLY LIE BuRN BRIDGES PLEDGE bOUND THIS fOE ELiTE iS fAR SuCH MEAN MEn A fOE At OATh StInK MAC…
From 142 to 191: letters here and there
From 192 to 236:
pEON to grOOM New BOOtS TO IT dOcILe UglY RaT as PRINCe F…
From 237 to 300: letters here and there
From 301 to 305:
AT fOE
From 306 to 319: letters here and there
From 320 to 327:
ARe FIrSt
From 328 to 359: letters here and there
From 361 to 367:
ThiS GuY
From 386 to 601: letters here and there
From 602 to 607:
OBTaiN
From 608 to 817: letters here and there
From 818 to 824:
MOPer SA…
From 825 to 958: letters here and there
From 959 to 965:
oFF SeeM
From 966 to 2906: letters here and there
See my deciphering of 14FEB14. It makes sense.
Lets not forget that the location was mentioned in B2. About 4 miles from Bufords in Bedford.
Something I have always found puzzling is “why three coded letters”. Especially the third letter. If Beale wanted the treasure distributed to those in the letter, why write it in code? If it were unable to be decoded, the finders of the treasure would not know who should receive it. What is the value of the second letter? If you found the treasure you would know what you have. If not, It would seem like a simple lead in paragraph to the first letter would suffice. Does this seem strange to anyone else or am I the only one?
I got hooked about ciphers after reading a book on Zodiac killer written by an Italian guy a few months ago …
On the Beale papers, how do you know which books have already been tested to avoid wasting a lot of time? …: I have already used various books as a key, with negative result … 🙁
How can I find copies of Virginia maps from the 1800s? …
Someone can tell me where to find them? …
I would like to get an idea of the place … ^_^
America is so far from Italy: on the Beale papers it’s far away even in history … ;-P
Thanks for any information … ^ _ ^
@Paolo – Beale’s is an interesting story, but I suspect with the large online corpuses available today almost every possible text has been tried as much as it can. Of course, translations and editions vary a little, and word numbering (or if you rely on pages page numbering) will differ and the task becomes somewhat more difficult.
From memory (and Beale used to fascinate me, but I lost interest) the general thinking is that the messages that haven’t been cracked can’t be similar codes because there simply isn’t enough letters to describe what’s claimed. Personally, I think the Beale stuff is bogus and while I’m mildly intrigued whether the codes are anything other than random numbers ) or something equally mundane (I think NP has a write up on Gillogly strings here – which certainly seem to point to some sort of jiggery-pokery going on)
Paolo: my opinion has long been that the Beale ciphers are real but that just about everything else in the Beale pamphlet is nonsense. So I really wouldn’t advise spending a lot of money on old maps of Virginia etc.
As far as the ciphers go: I think Jim Gillogly drew completely the wrong conclusion from the patterns. The patterns are 100% real, and indicate that the DofI used for #2 was also used for #1 and #3… but with a twist. Of course, the big question is what that twist is.
I solved the beale papers about a month ago. No one is going to believe any of what I say because they are too busy being off on a wild goose chase running after strange information. Not that any of the answers are considerably wrong that I have seen in the comments on this page, but simply put you don’t understand the nature of the beale papers.
Beale was himself “Satan” promising a person riches, and that the instruction necessary to receive those riches would be provided to them and be theirs at the demise of another and for nothing. The intention was to test a mans worth and to find if they were foolish and put themselves on a foolish quest and how much time they would devote to it just to get rich.
All of the coding is intentional and it applies to multiple texts pretty readily especially if you monkey with the ciphers. There is a saying in investigation, you can find evidence to support any claim if you want to. The entire thing was intended to be a waste of time for the wrong people. People only looking for fortunes beyond was is actually most valuable. Your lives, your families, your freedom, your liberty.
The story is important to get an understanding for the people involved and their character. The pamphlet being sold was a commentary on the future where people would devote so much time to the ciphers and lose that time to it that the only way they figure they could make up for it would be to write a book and fill it with their “findings”.
Many findings probably more come about out of perpetuating the beale paper mysteries than maybe were initially present at the beginning but maybe not. The Free Masons may have perpetuated it all because this nation was founded on Masonry and they are looking for the next Great High Priest and Architect of the future. There are a number of things that were said in the papers that were not noticed as they were intended to be and were taken for granted.
The direct path of the beale papers was to look in the Bible Thats what the statement when your work is all done for the day and you are by a good fire applying your self to it would do no harm in fact it may have its reward.
References to Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Job, Revelations perhaps more that I am still working on. The decodes are a little loose but they are specific enough that the narative is never broken, and many phrases come out clearly such as “I have fished you.” What continued in the narative is a conversation between myself and someone. The texts that were decoded were specific to my situation of being a “schizophrenic” and my views on righteousness, rights, freedom and liberty, God and Creation if those things aren’t actually the same since There would be God the Mother, God the Father, and Their children who are Gods. and there are human beings who are of the Gods, with the divine spark and the royal blood, we are all princes and princesses. Lords. and ladies.
The beale papers are about freedom and liberty, already in the 1800s the newly found country was in a state of decay from corruption and greed run rampant. Politicians were for sale and were allowing all kinds of aweful things, and still are. In america our very freedom and liberty is at risk right now. We are in the time of revelations. This I know for certain, I have seen the signs and I have seen many questionable things.
I am something of a medium and “psychic” I have decoded a number of hidden messages in the bible that people would miss easily because they are not in english, they are in other foreign languages, The odds of getting a coherent message out of a “arbitrary” decoding of the bible is impossible, its even more impossible that it would never break the narrative if you did. I have also decoded messages in my name one of which was “Only as Man can I heal this” I found messages to me in other peoples names and seemingly unrelated texts and that many things in this world appear to be the way they are because of God’s love for me, presumably for something I have done or will do.
The country is a mess, the world is a mess. I have discovered also the only way I know of to make a perpetual energy machine that is scalable to work on many different applications, I know how water fueled engines work compltely from beginning to end, I know that pnematic engines in place of diesel would be an inexpensive and reliable thing for bigrig trucks, I know how to deal with all of the capitalist bad business practices, I know how to heal foreign affairs, I know what true righteousness really is and morals and ethics of the highest order.
I’m not perfect, and the secret is neither Was Jesus Christ or (Jes uis Christ) (I am Anointed) we are made perfect in our efforts to repent and to pay recompense where necessary to atone for our transgressions, and to live our lives and make our decisions based on Love. We should be more loving, understanding, compasionate, tolerant and forgiving. The story of jesus was also one of duality being both christ and satan, How it was the LORD that had condemned God and mankind to have an emnity between them when God had exposed the LORDS lie about the fruit knowing that every thing that she created was good.
My life is a strange one, Im tied into the etherial realm through a psychic communcation with God, I am not crazy. I am a very logically minded and faithful person. All of this stuff reflects on a few different topics and they are all centeral in my life. My great grand mother once talked to the guide spirits and they told her that I was going to be born, and they told her by what circumstances and she told my mother who told me. I believe it. I was announced. The texts are looking for a person to bare the burden of getting every thing put back into order. To be a leader. To guide people and to assist in the healing process.
I am not an arrogant person, nor cocky. I have told God several times I don’t want to be known, I don’t want to take on the responsibility cause I don’t think I am the right man for the job. I think everyone will reject me and hardly any would accept me and listen to me and take me seriously. But I am here, I have come, and I am the one.
Should any brother masons or rose coix read this you are welcome to contact me. I have need to retrieve an envolope and effects, and presumably propery as would be left to me, I am James Bufords ward.
Nick S., I am the Lewxian featured on “Ron’s Pages”. I have come by a Capt. Tom Beale discovery that actually gets somewhere. In 1989, a group devoted to local History did a small dig at the short-lived iron mine of Land Grant recipient Harvey. An 1817 map of Botetourt hadCapt. Tom Beale (of Pendleton House) just a quarter mile N of iron miner Harvey. Mr. H worked his mine from 1810 to 1825, so inthe last yr of Beale’s own mining effort, Harvey had played-out mine cells just right for hiding Beale’s pots of ore. In trying to find the H mine, I went to “The Iron Furnaces of Botetourt County, Va”. It said no trace remained of the mine site. That is when I read the words that make a lie of that claim…because back in 1989, a History grp. went to the mine site and got what they were seeking: an iron bar from that very mine which ended up as a display (see 2 pics by scrolling down on pg. 1 of the TIFOBCva article). It is highly unlikely that the dig was for hidden pots of gold. They just wanted to show typical items from an iron mine. SO, there in the H mine sits about $60 Million, with no thought in anyone’s mind of digging it up. The big problem has been finding the mine site. It’s a mile or two from where rte. 600 and the devil’s rte. (666) meet–but that isn’t good enough. What I found locks it in. There are even a couple of still-breathing History buffs who could take you to it. What a discovery: Beale’s enigma gets cleared up in every respect. Failed miner Harvey diedvery rich (because he ended up with Beale’s fortune). Of course we can not voice that opinionwithout risking a super libel suit. I bet you never expected this as conclusion to the BEALE CODES! R. Lewxian
Hello I managed to do the Beale Cipher I would like to know the procedure to do an analysis
Nick,
Breaker here……..
I wanted to update you all on some discoveries that I’ve made as well as a breakthrough in the Beale Cipher #1.
Years ago I made the conclusion that the Beale was a cover story used to deliver a message from a group of KGC Operatives that were illegally conducting the “Peralta Land Grab” in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona. I had theorized that the Author was James Reavis, the ringleader of the operations, and that he was tied to a Castle of operatives employed by Albert Pike, JP Morgan, and JD Rockefeller. The timing is also crucial as the same window of a few years was seen in both the Land Grab and the publications of the Beale.
In the mystery behind the whereabouts of the 30 men from the Beale Party, the discovery of a mass grave of 30 unknown men was made in Arizona called Massacre Grounds, in the vicinity of their mining operation some years in the past. The Peralta Stones also accompanied the discovery of their graves, and on the bottom of the stone map is a code reading 2=3-Mine-18=7. In the Beale it reads that they left on a 2 year contract, in the 3rd month of March, to Mine for 18 months or more. The similarities are irrefutable, and I was able to track down the mine locations during two exploratory hikes in two canyons near the same starting point.
I now hold the claims on these very mines that are decorated with the images of the initials TJB throughout. Surrounding their pictographs and carved images and maps to mine openings made in stone, are some of the most incredible sites to have explored and located, and I have made a page on FB /LostDutchmanTrail showing the evidence of my recon trips.
Now for the codes…..
The other day in Arizona after having moved tons of boulders and stones that were blocking the entrance to a mine tunnel through a ridge, I wanted to come back to take a look at the ciphers because I was curious if ChatGPT could assist me in breaking the Beale.
It could not substitute the numbers into any logical format that would deliver a plaintext, even abbreviated or anagrammed. It struggled to get all the numbers onto the page at one time, as it was limited to about 250 or 300 (Beale pun intended). Even though the program was bunk and could not Brute Force a solve, I thought for a second about the numbers, and why they were not able to deliver a Book Code translation for #1 and #3.
So I decided on another angle of attack. I asked ChatGPT to arrange a series of numbered alphabets using a standard value, A-1 & Z-26, with the next alphabet beginning at A-27, and so forth, until the alphabets reached the number 3000.
I began the tedious movement of separating the lines of numbers in B1 into their own strands, and giving them a space for the letter value for each number on a worksheet beneath, I went to work with the key that I had concluded would be a viable system to cover the entire series of randomly selected numbers in B1.
There was an intentional meaning to the use of this many alphabets as you will see in my declarations. As most ciphers were created with intentional edits and mistakes to consider, this seemed to have a secondary layer that relied on the patterning of numbers in their relative position on the sheet of paper, so I could easily recognize the patterns drew out a map with two lines acting as angles of inclination, and the second set of lines mapping out a compass shape leading to an apex above the others.
The B1 is called “The Locality Of The Vault” so naturally finding a map inside the block of numbers would be a steganographic trick to be aware of, as well as the fact that the same points and layout was seen added to the Peralta Stones, matching their design and complimenting its directions to the depositories in Virginia.
As the numbers were translated to letters I could see words forming as stennos immediately in the first two lines. In fact it came right out and read SLLK KKK MN CIPHER BLOCK in the first line’s initial segment. I knew it was time to break this thing using the key, the one-time arrangement of alphabets in an ascending order that were numbered to suit the limitations of the Beale Ciphers.
Now the patterns of numbers mentioned forming the map in the upper segment were complimented with a page break and a division of the cipher into two sections using the number 81, which has a mathematical importance that I describe later. The number 81 appeared on the page on the left side and right side and it acted as a guide to drawing a line between the series of numbers that featured the number 11. A consistent line of these patterned 11’s were placed intentionally across the page stretching from side to side along a descending course. This separated the page at a key location where the words I CT EHZ BRKS (I Cut, Easy Breaks) are seen in the center of this line across at the break.
Now working on the rest of the cipher, you find that there are subtle traits of the page standing out, breaking into two sections, with basic guides to forming Old English Box Ciphers out of the combination of text in proximity to one word making longer stennos or shortened phrases.
I block in the rest of the stennos as instructed in two sections and it begins to read as if a KGC correspondence between two parties, dropped anonymously by James Reavis, has been encrypted behind the patterns of text seen. In fact the mathematical coincidences behind the numbers used are in the millions to one at this point as letters are intentionally repeated and used as filler between the sections of Old English Box Ciphers and the placement of their locations on the page is used to fill in the areas around the maps. The lower section of Block Ciphers is arranged creatively to map the corridor of the canyon up to the mines that were made in the Superstitions.
The complete message is between James Reavis, who not only is speaking about the big Peralta Land Grab in AZ, but seems to be also passing along a message from Albert Pike about the murder of Jesse James, at the hands of Robert Ford and Dick Liddil, and it speaks about blacklisting them throughout Virginia. The locations were once mined by the CSA and depositories were left behind. The B1 Breaks that I made were used to produce locations where these depositories were found.
Additionally there was a torn page found with the Beale in record halls, showing that the page had some numbers on the back. The tear is at the same lower part of the page as in the ciphers, as well as following the movement in the same direction to separate them. It was to act as a key to finding the common patterned numbers to look for in the B1 cipher using the mathematical calculations on the torn page. They act as a confirmation tool which will produce an addendum to the ciphers in the B1 and further describe the recovery effort of this cache, as the men in the Beale were killed to intentionally cover up their tracks and to try to leave the onus of their disappearance in the hands of the Apache. The cover story that was used to incite the next leg of their journey to the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Kenneth Bauman had found the hint about that affair using the end letters of the same code that broke #2. RED KNEE is Wounded Knee…as in a bloody knee or from the Massacre that took place there shortly after the Beale.
It becomes apparent that the Beale acts as a battle plan for the operations of the Knights of the Golden Circle in the effort of removing ore and depositing it in underground treasuries throughout the US, leaving them for later use in the affairs that spread throughout the globe under the direction of a shadow government of splinter-cell Masons after the Civil War. The Beale specifically mentions the locations of the mines that were found to have been pillaged in the Peralta Land Grab, and shows the locations of two deposits made in Virginia, surrounding a region where their order was based, near Bedford and Montvale.
The affairs in the Beale are detailed and the additional ciphers found on my FB page broken show the efforts of Herbert Osborn Yardley of the American Black Chamber or MI8 in the continuation of them with the formats used in the Beale. With the intention of creating a series of covert operations and the planning for 3 World Wars, as mentioned in Albert Pike’s records, and seen throughout these eras with events that were described in the pages of the ciphers before they happened, proving these ciphers act as instruction for their group.
I am uploading a copy of my worksheet for review so you can see how the alphabets are used and the reveals of the secondary layers are shown in detail.
https://imgur.com/SKyDBYi
BREAKER
The link for B2 and the rest of the decryption of the ciphers are found here:
https://imgur.com/fXfvf2F
http://www.facebook.com/SolvingBealePapers
B2 was first in the list, having been “broken” by the author of the papers, but this was filled with numerous intentional mistakes, that proved the cipher was holding a secondary message.
When looking into the text in the letter surrounding the sections of the ciphers, it became apparent there was something “beneath the surface” of this letter itself, in that the letter held instructions from the author in the manners in which to break all 3.
The messages detailed the same operations and patterned themselves with only the use of a paired word found above and below the ciphertext strands of numbers. FOREGOING was the hint as it repeated, and generally in English grammar you are not supposed to use the same word twice, writing it over again. Seeing that this held a specific drawn conclusion, I moved to connect the two, noticing that there was a pattern of 44s in the center of the line, that also was complimented with the use of the 44s on each side of the cipher. Drawing that line across I found that it made a slightly skewed X with a slanted design, as well as seeming to hold the symmetrical shape of two trowels facing one another.
Moving through the statements in the letter and the blocked out secondary messages, the use of the words IN THE COUNTy and SIX FEET stood out as being a form of measurement, and the numbers 72 appeared to align on the right side of the lower half of the page with the asymmetrical position on the other side of the page, pointing at the numbers 7777 in a group. Seeing that the numbers were drawing a line, I saw that the same parallel was found using the number combinations of 220 and 110 on the right side of the page. This formed a parallel banner or ribbon across the page, and blocked in one other number, 807, into the shape of a ruler.
Seeing this number as relevant because it accompanied all the other 44s in the close proximity, I moved to bring them into the array. Using the key as a confirmation the 44s became “AR” and the 808 became “AEA” forming the words A AREA or AREA A, or ARAEA (Array). A crude confirmation, but the patterning was sound throughout forming symmetrical lines in an array from the centerpoint of the cipher in sequential steps.
There is more found here that confirms the key as well, mentioning that they were intentionally using this key to convert the numbers into letters. Much has been said about their strands from frequency examinations, but you can also tell where the entire cipher was filled with the low frequency letters to act as filler, leaving it useless in the blocking of stennos. When this was considered intentional, it revealed that the blank areas spelled out the letters C S A.
The entire operation of the Peralta Land Grab, and the clandestine operations of the KGC are shown in this breakdown, as well as listing the names of their financiers, JD Rockefeller and JP Morgan. It confirms the mine systems I claimed on record with the Dept of Interior are in fact spoken about in the Beale and that they were tapped illegally under the forged land grant that James Reavis filed in the attempt to take control over the whole valley of Phoenix.
And to add casually, the US Army just issued a communique to its bases and its commanders that any and all Confederate regalia or flags are not to be presented on base or on any Social Media pages from active members of the US Military. There is a growing movement based on the discoveries that were made in this event since it was first exposed in 2015 and it will continue to sweep the nation regardless of the conjecture behind the discoveries made so far.
You can see the mines and the history behind them here
http://www.facebook.com/LostDutchmanTrail
Enigma de beale está baseado no número 26
Estou tentando traduzir
Ele diz em árabe que deixa um tonelada de tesouro para você
Estou tentando decifrar o restante do código
Traduzir sem conhecimento da escrita é muito dificil
I used another approach of getting a plain text out of Beale letters.
Abolish absolute and Britain, but consent disposed. — Taken from letter THE LOCALITY OF THE VAULT. Possitions of numbers starting from 44 till 50. Every number represents a corresponding word from DOI. Seqence AAABBCD.
And be bands bodies causes created. Causes colonies deriving direct ends. — Taken from letter THE LOCALITY OF THE VAULT. Possitions of numbers starting from 84 till 94. Every number represents a corresponding word from DOI. Seqence ABBBCCCCDDE.
Alter bodies changed direct equal from government. Human is it. Just King laws. Mankind measures nature of history people people. — Taken from letter THE LOCALITY OF THE VAULT. Possitions of numbers starting from 188 till 206. Every number represents a corresponding word from DOI. Seqence ABCDEFGHIIJKLMMNOHP.
I have talked a bit with Bard AI about probabilities. 🙂
The question was.
What is a probability that this sentence generated accidentally?
The probability that the sentence “Abolish absolute and Britain, but consent disposed.” The probability of sentence being generated accidentally is quite low.
I would estimate that the probability of the sentence “Abolish absolute and Britain, but consent disposed.” being generated accidentally is less than 1 in 10^15.
The probability that the two sentences “And be bands bodies causes created.” and “Causes colonies deriving direct ends.” …sentences were generated accidentally is very low.
According to the Python code and execution result I have generated and memorized, the probability of the first sentence being generated accidentally is 0.00011574074074074072.
According to the Python code and execution result I have generated and memorized, the probability of the second sentence being generated accidentally is 0.00008680555555555556.
Sentences are grammatically correct and semantically meaningful, although they are somewhat unusual. However, it is still important to note that the probability of the sentence being generated accidentally is still quite low. This is especially true if the sentence is generated in a context where it is relevant and meaningful. For example, if the sentence is generated in a historical document about kings and laws, it is very likely that it was generated intentionally.
This is a small piece of US history.
It was a mistake. Since Beale papers contains two versions of DOI words in sequence 480-490, I applied a wrong characters.
The correct sequence of first letters in section 44-52 is AAABBCDEF.
So we get a correct sentence:
Abolish absolute and Britain, but consent disposed elected forms.
The phrase is so clear that I even didn’t check it with Bard AI. Just translated to other language with DeepL. It is fully comprehensive.
Abolir l’absolutisme et la Grande-Bretagne, mais consentir à des formes élues. -FR
Abolire l’assoluto e la Gran Bretagna, ma acconsentire a forme elettive. -IT
So we have a small fragment of American history. Enjoy :unhappysmiley:
Hi everyone,
I maybe have deciphered the first letter using another approach. The first letters deciphered :
O N C “E O” N R E D “S T” O N E S E T O N C
71 194 38 1701 89 76 11 83 1629 48 94 63 132 16 111 95 84 341
E A C E R E “A “R S” E” V E N T H E “N T” O H E
975 14 40 64 27 81 139 213 63 90 1120 8 15 3 126 2018 40 74
A R T R E D T A I L
758 485 604 230 436 664 582 150 251 284
I’ll keep you informed.
Has anyone ever tried to use George Washington’s spy book from the revolutionary war, that has numbers in it. I am not a cryptographer. That would be cool to help out.
There is quite a bit of information pertaining to Thomas Beale. Thomas Beale claimed that an Indian native led him to a goldmine somewhere between New Mexico and Arizona. If you w ever what to decipher a pirate’s cipher map? You must learn the history surrounding the individual in question. He claimed to be part of thirty armed men who were out looking for a good place to hunt. By luck a native Indian help him locate a rich goldmine instead of just a place to hunt? OK! It’s possible! But you have to consider that a hunting expedition in those days was dangerous and expensive. Apparently he found a rich goldmine that supported his venture. He made several trips all during the winter months. He was seen in Missouri and Virginia. No one travels that many miles without money? The last time he left Virginia he caution his friend that he wasn’t to sure he might make it back. He also claimed that he had buried gold in three different locations in Virginia that belong to group and their families which was secure in case they did not make it back. Initially no one knew why they never made it back? But someone did mention that the Apache claimed someone stole some of their gold. You can’t steal Apache gold unless you knew where the Apache goldmine was located? So I wanted to know where did they get the gold that they claimed to have been buried in Virginia? And did they actually buried the treasure? I’ve researched 25 plus treasure that contain ciphers. So, l know quite a bit about ciphers and we’re about to find something about Thomas Beale that is going to get you closer to his treasure. In a couple of days I’ll post more on Thomas Beale! We’re not going to stop until we as much as we can about this pirate!
Thomas Beale must of been an educated man. To be able to lead a group of thirty men into uncharted territory. You must be able to read time, compass direction, mileage, to also include being able to cipher three letters? You’re not born with the knowledge! So he must of been the son of a wealthy family or a member of a group that took interest teaching him what he needed to know in order to lead thirty men? It was mentioned that he might have been a member of a secret society called the golden circle? There is no record to say who created the golden circle and when? So will have to leave it to a possibility until we find the evidence needed to support this theory. He did carry the middle name of Jefferson and was also from Virginia which could mean that he was related to president Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson supported several government expeditions, during his presidency, in hopes of finding a trade route from Virginia to Santa Fe, but the Spaniard army outpost kept them away from investigating the Red River in Texas plus would not allow any government expedition near Santa Fe. According to the Louisiana purchase, Thomas Jefferson believed that he had the right away of passage to Santa Fe according to the Louisiana purchase map. Thomas Jefferson wanted to secure a Santa Fe route in order to investigate the territory between Santa Fe and the Pacific Ocean. U. S. finally managed to acquire the land from Mexico 25 years after the war of independence which started in 2010 and ended in 2021. It is important to know what was happening during Thomas Beale’s life in order to understand why? He was able to go beyond the Mexican border in to dangerous uncharted Apache territory. A good treasure hunter always listens to everything and anything that is said about a mystery story. Then he will evaluated everything said by recorded history and common sense. He will take that which makes sense and continues searching for any other hidden information that can support what makes sense. In the end a true story will make sense by using recorded information combined with unrecorded information. So, when someone say where did you hear that, I live in the area and never heard about it before? I have to say maybe you never paid attention to what people say just because it’s never been recorded. A treasure hunter always looks for unrecorded missing information which is the key in trying to solve a mystery. I don’t like to get involved with a cryptic cipher or the cryptic part of a cipher because it’s not an easy thing to do. I usually depend on those who love to decipher cryptic part and you can easily find them on this site. Deciphering the cryptic part is just a part of the puzzle that gets you closer to the treasure. That is what, Nick, was trying to point out and he is correct. If it was just about sending or transferring secret information, then it normally is about decrypting the information. I’m going to write more on this subject to give you a better understanding.
So, here we have a non military expedition disguised as a hunting party looking for an exotic animal that lives with the Apache? And the Spanish military is so occupied defending Mexico City from the natives wanting their independence. So, the only thing in the way guarding a goldmine is the Apache who has left the area for the winter in order to secure their family from the cold also protecting themselves from any possible enemy attack. All their hidden goldmines were vulnerable of being robbed during the winter months. Jacob Waltz knew this and that’s why he was so successful. You don’t rob an Indian goldmine during the summer months, you could call it suicide! So, the question is why did he go back to work the goldmine year around when he had enough gold to support his venture and stake a claim on the goldmine. You could not stake a claim on a goldmine that is not located within U.S. territory which include having to secured the goldmine for a period of time with evidence that the gold came from that specific goldmine. So all this insignificant points or clues have a lot to do with the history of the mystery surrounding Thomas Beale. But there is more to this story? More to talk about in defining the mystery of the hidden gold. Stick around learn how a treasure cipher works! Because a cipher such as this is one is going to tell us more than a few hidden secrets surrounding his story.
What I’m trying to say is that I’m going to provide the code in this discussion for all those who have been looking to answer the three cipher letters. But Thomas Beal wanted us to know more about his story, than just the ciphers, that describes him being involved with a secret society. I’m going to identify certain clues that might give us the answer to why the group decided to return to this secret goldmine and suddenly just disappeared. So, don’t be surprised! If he left more clues behind that are going to lead us to the secret goldmine with the much needed information that is going to lead us in identifying the code to decipher his letters.
What I’m trying to say is that I’m going to provide the code in this discussion for all those who have been looking to answer the three cipher letters. But Thomas Beal wanted us to know more about his story, than just the ciphers, that describes him being involved with a secret society. I’m going to identify certain clues that might give us the answer to why the group decided to return to this secret goldmine and suddenly just disappeared. So, don’t be surprised! If he left more clues behind that are going to lead us to the secret goldmine with the much needed information that is going to lead us in identifying the code to decipher his letters.
The research into the ciphers has paid off.
A new article in Popular Mechanics is shown to feature the breaks I made and linked to this page above. The article by Dave Howard is added for reference here in links to the jpgs.
https://imgur.com/tjDoqLI
https://imgur.com/CzQ4gvl
https://imgur.com/rluIQKw
https://imgur.com/Ie2c5zY
https://imgur.com/O3iiHoS
https://imgur.com/uLlt1M3
With this article a number of other leads are shown with personal details of their adventures as well as the reference to other treasure hunts.