codes and ciphers - Mysteries

The Beale Ciphers

November 8, 2026November 8, 2026 by Tommy Hayes

Edward Beyer's 1855 painting of the Peaks of Otter and the town of Liberty (now Bedford) in Bedford County, Virginia — the area where the Beale treasure was supposedly buried, not the ciphers or the pamphlet

About 4 min readThree coded messages published in 1885 supposedly point to a fortune in gold and silver buried in Bedford County, Virginia. Only one has ever been solved — and no treasure has ever been found.