Beale Cipher News Today

For the past century, the quest to break the Beale Ciphers has attracted the military, computer scientists, and conspiracy theorists. All have failed.

" " The Beale Ciphers are three typed pages of nothing but numbers, a code that supposedly details the location of a vast treasure hidden by a mysterious figure named Thomas J. Beale. But was the entire mystery just an elaborate hoax? Wikimedia Commons (CC By-SA 3.0)/HowStuffWorks The story of the Beale Ciphers is a particularly peculiar mystery, to be sure, and many people whove researched it have concluded that its probably just an elaborate 19th-century hoax. After all, who would bring...