Between 1819 and 1821 a fortune in gold, silver, and jewels were allegedly buried in the hills of Bedford County, Virginia, by a man named Thomas J. Beale. The supposed location of the treasure can only be deciphered through three encoded texts, two of which remain unbroken. -------------------- MUSIC Theme Music by Dethlehem (dethlehem.bandcamp.com) -------------------- SOCIAL LINKS Website: www.mysteriouspals.com Email: mysteriouspalsonline@gmail.com Youtube: @MysteriousPals Facebook: @mysteriouspals Instagram: @mysteriouspals X/Twitter: @mysterious_pals Podcast Feeds: www.mysteriouspals.com -------------------- EPISODE RESOURCES
- O'Toole, Thomas. "The Beale Treasure." The Washington Post, May 10, 1987
- Curry, Patrick. "The Beale Ciphers: Historical Overview and Current Status." *Journal of Cryptology*, vol. 4, no. 2, 1991, pp. 157-169
- Humes, Edward. The Man Who Cracked the Code. New York: Scribner, 2011
- Orlin, Eric. *American Cryptology: The Beale Cipher Mystery*. Random House, 1997
- "The Beale Treasure Ciphers". The Guardian. 1999. Archived from the original on 2006-12-30
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-------------------- IMAGES Episode Thumbnail: Beale_Papers.gif: Author unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons -------------------- TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 - Beginning 00:00:10- Introduction 00:03:38 - The Story of the Beale Ciphers 00:36:56 - Common Theories 01:02:20 - Our Theories 01:09:00 - Closing -------------------- ABOUT THE MYSTERIOUS PALS The Mysterious Pals is a mysterious show about history and friendship. #mystery, #history, #unsolved, #unsolvedmysteries, #mysteriouspals, #staymysterious, #treasure, #treasurehunt, #bealeciphers, #bealepapers
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