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Stories of treasures invariably cause heart palpitations. Books become best sellers, movies bring awesome box office. But besides movies and books, there really are treasures, stories of which are passed from mouth to mouth and which people searched for many years.
Two risk takers
Robert Morris began his career in business as a wholesaler tobacco. Adventurer’s vein was beating in Robert, and he repeatedly started very risky events, during which it is unthinkable grew rich, then went to pieces. After another unsuccessful he rented an adventure in Lynchburg (Virginia, USA) hotel “Arlington” and with his characteristic energy in a short time made her best in town.
In January 1820, a man settled in the hotel Thomas Bale, bison hunter. Two risky lovers adventures liked each other, between them something like friendship.
Save box
Bailey set off on his hunting raids leave the owner of the hotel to preserve personal things and important documents. In the spring of 1822 with the beginning of the next hunting season Thomas, leaving Arlington, left Morris an iron box, locked with a request to keep it as the apple of an eye for a year, two, five – until he returns or sends a confidant for her person. If within 10 years no one comes for the casket (the life of a bison hunter is full of surprises) – open it.
Morris honestly did not wait for 10, but for more than 20 years, and only in 1845, when there was no hope of Bail coming back, hacked the castle. In the casket, he found 3 sheets dotted with numbers and cover letter from Thomas addressed to him.
Treasure!
In a lengthy message, Bale described in detail how in 1817 a group of hunters led by him in the vicinity of Santa Fe (then it was the territory of Mexico), stumbled upon a rich gold vein. The hunters urgently re-qualified as prospectors and after 18 months became the owners of a huge amount of gold and silver. (Silver is often present in gold ores as a companion metal) With great precautions, wealth on two wagons transported to the United States.
Morris was trusted to remove the treasure, 1/3 to keep, and the rest pass on to the relatives of the miners. All necessary additional information in encrypted sheets. The key to the cipher is at the trusted the man who hands it to Morris in 1832.
However, the “trusted man” did not appear in 1832, nor later. In 1862, 84-year-old Morris passed cryptograms to his loved one a friend wishing them luck in deciphering them and taking the word from him fulfill the will of Bale.
First try
The young man studied cryptograms and suggested that each the number corresponds to a specific letter. However in total The numbers were several times the number of letters in the alphabet. Apparently bale applied the common “printing code”. In this case any text is taken and its ordinal is put instead number of occurrence in the text. Since each letter is used in text repeatedly, one letter may correspond to several dozens of numbers. But what kind of text lay in front of Bale when did he encrypt his sheets?
One sheet is decrypted!
The researcher was patient for several years and began to stupidly check all texts that could be at hand in 1818 the bison hunter. When the turn of the Declaration on independence, the numbers from the second sheet, replaced by letters, began develop meaningful words and sentences.
It follows from the decrypted text that the treasure consists of 2927 pounds of gold (1323kg), 5100 pounds of silver (2310kg) and barter on silver gemstones. Everything is stacked in iron pots closed by covers and buried in the ground around Buford (county Badford). The location of the cache is described in detail in document No. 1, document No. 3 – a list of names of the expedition members with their indication the heirs.
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Inspired by good luck in five minutes, the millionaire abandoned all his affairs and focused on decrypting cryptogram No. 1. But second fate did not give him a gift. After 3 years, he went bankrupt and already a desperate treasure seeker decided to put an end to his search. He met with publisher James Ward and suggested that issue a brochure outlining the entire history and texts of all 3 cryptograms, hoping in this way to earn at least a little treasures not found. The treasure hunter-loser wished his name keep secret. In 1865, a brochure was published and encrypted. Thomas Bale’s leaflets became public.
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Hoax?
Many consider the story of Bailey’s treasure a hoax to make money by selling leaflets randomly filled with numbers and fascinating story as an app. In authorship suspected publisher James Ward himself, writer John Sherman (author adventure novels), Edgar Allan Poe, who loved and practiced similar rallies, and a dozen or two more or less well-known people.
Or is it true?
However, many disagree with the theory of mystification. George brothers and Clayton Hart in 1897 began their work of decoding bale leaflets. In 1912 (after 15 years!) George left his attempts. Clayton continued to work until his death in 1946 year.
In 1968, the Bale Cipher Association was organized, where included specialists in computer cryptanalysis. Supreme the achievement of the Association was the conclusion that texts 1 and 3 were not at all set of random numbers. They show patterns characteristic of encrypted texts. Currently in Associations of more than 100 members, work continues.
World-famous experts were also involved in decryption, Ases of cryptography, however, texts encrypted as far back as the 19th century, so and remained unread.
In total, more than 8 have been tested for hacking at the moment. thousand documents. The result is zero. Some researchers they suggest that Bale used a document to encrypt, existing in a single copy, say a personal letter. IN in this case, decryption of its cryptograms is simply impossible.
What is there to think? Digging is necessary!
Those who are too lazy to strain their brains ride with shovels to Badford County. Every summer, dozens of people with mine detectors, clairvoyants and dowsers roam around the vicinity of Buford and dig out every one they seemed to suspicious site, down to the graves. Individual Wishing get rich get driven by excavators, bulldozers, tear the ground dynamite. Sometimes it seems that in the vicinity there is no longer living places.
Last riddle
Badford County Police alleges that during 2012-2014 of 32 researchers who have submitted applications for excavation, 11 without a trace have disappeared. They didn’t even find the corpses. Is this what it is for?
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