Beale then encrypted the location of the treasure, the contents of the treasure, and the names of those he wished to have the treasure. Beale buried a treasure trove of gold and silver somewhere in Bedford County, Virginia, in the early 1800s. No, that singular honor belongs to a treasure hunt known as the Beale Ciphers.Īs the story goes, a man named Thomas J. (Without resulting in unfortunate demises, that is. In the past, we’ve explored the mystery of Forrest Fenn’s Rocky Mountain treasure, we’ve chronicled efforts to locate all of Byron Preiss’s The Secret treasures, and we’ve suggested tactics for cracking Jason Rohrer’s A Game for Someone hunt.īut as intriguing as those hunts are, none of them have spanned more than a century of searching. Thankfully, there are a few treasure hunts lurking out there in the real world, offering clever solvers the chance to live out their own adventure. From The Treasure of the Sierra Madre to the adventures of Indiana Jones, from tales as far back as Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” to stories as recent as an episode of NCIS: New Orleans last year, a treasure hunt can turn a crime story or an adventure tale into an irresistible narrative for the ages. There’s nothing quite like a treasure hunt to spark the imagination.
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