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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Beale Treasure (Classic)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Grab your pickaxes, your shovels, and your code breaking supercomputers because today we’re going on a treasure hunt.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, a quick reminder, we would love to hear from you about your best summer travel

0:06.3

stories.

0:07.5

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0:12.5

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0:15.3

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0:22.8

leave a message at 315-992-7902.

0:28.5

Are you going to forward to hearing cremio?

0:35.1

71-194-38-1700-1

0:41.4

What do you hear?

0:43.7

If you're hearing a string of random numbers, you aren't hearing what's really there.

0:48.0

1,629-48-94

0:53.4

Hidden in those numbers is the exact location of thousands of pounds of gold, silver and

1:01.4

jewels, around $60 million to be exact.

1:08.4

Two hundred years ago in Bedford County, Virginia, a mysterious figure named Thomas Jefferson

1:14.3

Beale buried this treasure.

1:18.0

He left behind a series of documents, three papers, each one covered in a series of numbers.

1:25.4

The map to the treasure was in those numbers.

1:30.3

We know this because one of the codes has already been broken, 604.

1:38.6

Over the last century and a half, the effort to break those numerical codes and the search

1:43.2

for Beale's treasure has been one of the longest, costliest treasure hunts in American history.

1:50.1

The world's top spies and its craftiest treasure hunters have all tried to crack the code.

1:56.7

Even the world's top codebreakers have said that with the right insight, the right key,

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