The Unsolved Code That's Kept A Treasure Haul Hidden For 200 Years | Myth Hunters

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Published 2024-06-15
In 1820 a man called Thomas Beale buried a fortune in treasure somewhere in Virginia. He wrote a set of 3 codes that contain details on the treasure's location, the treasure's contents and the owners of the treasure. To this day only the codes relating to the contents and owners have been solved. Meaning that this great treasure is still out there somewhere 200 years on.

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All Comments (21)
  • @iphotons
    This makes me want to write a bunch of random numbers on a piece of paper and leave it somewhere for the community to go wild. Love this channel! 🥰
  • @johnredford993
    This sounds as ridiculous of a fantasy as National Treasure or The da Vinci Code.
  • @JohnRyan-gr8bs
    No one ever wants to talk about if it was even possible to accumulate or transport that much without infrastructure
  • @philipr1567
    Well, it just goes to show that treasure codes are not the Beale and end-all.
  • @JohnRyan-gr8bs
    How many miners would it take to mine then smelt all of that how many more people must have been supporting those workers with food? Why is there no evidence of any of that infrastructure?
  • @user-nu4th8tp8k
    Ok they used the Declaration of Independence to break one page. They say Thomas Jefferson Beal and two friends. Well the Declaration of Independence was change by Quincy Adams and again by Benjamin Franklin. So the other two pages might be solved under the other two versions. Just a thought.
  • @lynnloww
    Lmaooo kills me the dude is having his eyes rolled in the back of his head as though his possessed and can see the past during the seance 😂😂😂😂
  • @atlantic_love
    "200 years" and "treasure" just don't really perk up my ears. That's like me telling my husband that some house we're driving by "is really old" (we live in the US), when he's from the UK and seen remants of castles that existed long before Columbus ever set foot here :D
  • @lynnloww
    So some people believed this was all a hoax to sell the brochures… hmm… makes sense lol
  • It is interesting we are speaking of the Constitution…. There was a “Beale” who was an artist who portrayed Benjamin Franklin at the Constitutional Convention in the 1900 s. Franklin became a Freemason at age 17 in Philadelphia in 1731. Theres a ton of references to a “great treasure “ related to the Early American Freemasons. The French had lost “significant land holdings” to the English in 1763. In 1776 Franklin went to France seeking help from them for the Revolutionary war in 1776. Interestingly Benjamin Franklin was a member of the Lodge of the Nine Sisters in France and became its Grand Master from 1778- 1791.. If one paper matches the Constitution what two other documents match the other two? Could Thomas Pains Common Sense be one ? I’d like to hear what AI would make of these “cyphers.”
  • @kcstafford2784
    wish there was some way to turn off the background music....
  • @legacyXplore
    I’m a real life treasure and relic hunter and this is a perfect example of what’s wrong with almost every big treasure story. People mix the fun that can come from something like the Beal Cipher with the fun you have when looking for something that legitimately has a chance of being real. It’s two different things completely. I wouldn’t waste one second on most of the big ones but I still enjoy reading about them from time to time.
  • @nancym5341
    If they use The Declaration of Independence as their first cipher breaker then don’t it make sense that they used The Constitution and The Amendments as the other two code cipher’s? Just saying…
  • The code it must be simple by coordinate, degrees given North East West and South.💪👀