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"YOU"....no, Rebel, not me. I am under strict confidentiality not to reveal "who," "what," and "how". Yet, there are seven sites, six of them national historical sites, located by my effort, that defy inspection. This is telling. The Beale Papers' secret writing lead one to these sites. One vault, belonging to another, that can be opened, is not yet. This is published information. We've been through a lot of this already before on forum lines. ERE FEN DUE RED KNEE leads somewhere. On its own, it is suspect..it leads somewhere...
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Bigscoop: "ERE FEN DUE RED KNEE" ultimately leads to the above photo. See how exactly 42.5 standard bricks can be built to hide an interior cache? Yes, the encryption is sparse; however, it is all that was needed to lead this investigator to the quoin unit...yeah, look up the word. Might I recommend the 1949 Webster's New International Dictionary - Second Edition - Unabridged - 3210 pages which leads me to:
Benjamin: Great observation and here is the explanation..."Ere. > variation of Ear > Meaning: to plow ... Usage: And life's a test for any plough to ere." And, in correspondence with Jim Gillogly [ www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0161-118091854979 ] he advises that he located the usage of "ere" as to "plow" prior to 1819 by 200 years, he said, according to a note I have pasted in my dictionary.
Bigscoop: Your comment here: "they can be managed to say most anything our hearts desire if we are simply compelled to work at it long enough." First of all, I read the Beale Papers fictional story and within two hours decoded "ERE FEN DUE RED KNEE" from the first 16 numbers in Code 1 (reversing the plain text as intended) . The plain text fell out onto the table from a letter for letter substitution cipher. I "managed" nothing, but rather scientifically used the last letter of the DOI word to reveal the plain text. Your comment is erroneous, misleads and seems to attempt to derail this discussion. I would prefer not to encounter silly messages. Thank you.
Bigscoop: I concede that there are many "segmented" solutions. My plain text is not segmented. It is, what it is, simply a short encryption. In 2005, when this line was identified, there was no preconceived idea(s) as to the result of the plain text or where it would lead to. In other words, I did not create the plain text out of thin air for an agenda. The plain text is plain and simply, a result of a simple substitution cipher. The cryptographer intended to use the spaces for 16 letters and encrypted his message. In reverse to boot. Do you fully understand this methodology...especially the last lengthy paragraph? :
I have a decipherment of B1. It's short...only the first 16 coded numbers substitute out to a plaintext of directions on where to dig (even if a treasure does not exist). I have read the Gillogly paper and agree that the majority of the cryptogram is random numbers....I think the Gillogly string was injected into the selection of random choices to throw off later cryptanalysts and further hide the first 16 characters. B2 was fraught with error and I think that B1 was created by the author of the pamphlet after B2; B1 being short and sweet because the encoder was probably tired of counting letters in the DOI which is the key to B1. The DOI is applied in a special manner to B1 and the short plaintext appears as follows:
ERE FEN DUE RED KNEE
Ere is a variation of the word ear which means to plow. Fen is a low land or spot. Due means exactly. Red Knee is likely the name of a spot that is currently unknown to me and to other apparently as I have published this plaintext in two newspaper articles in hopes to locate red knee.
The original pamplet DOI is the key to B1 (to arrive at my decipherment). DOI word #111 in the original pamplet is "their" instead what it should be: "these". And, between words #154 and #155 (institute and new) is inserted (incorrectly) the word: "a". These two mistakes in the original pamplet are necessary to arrive at my decipherment.
My small error in determining word #71 I believe was the same error committed by the author of B1. Word #70 was mistakingly thought to be "separation" and therefore the word "we" was selected as word #71. When you come to encoded #76, commit the same error (logically).
Run this by selecting the LAST letter of each word for the first 16 encoded numbers. Place a question mark for encoded numbers over 1322 (there are two). Reverse the order of letters selected and arrive at:
ere fen d?e red ?nee
Perhaps you have found the one "K" that ends the word "mock" in the original pamphlet DOI; I think it's word #697 (not sure right now about this). The author of B1 could have selected the word "mock" to indicate a "K" for "knee". The only other letter that could be selected by the future cryptanalyst is "s" for "snee" (no other english words end with nee). Snee is a word in the dictionary, but does not make sense in a final plaintext. Likewise, the "U" makes the most sense for the final plaintext and "U" does not appear as the final letter of any word in the DOI. Because these letters were not located by the author of B1 in the DOI, he selected ecoded numbers for the cryptogram over 1322 to indicate that some extra work would be necessary to fill in the gaps. This theory seems to make the most sense. Therefore, ERE FEN DUE RED KNEE jumps right out at you; this does not seem to be coincidence or anything but an intended message....especially since the plaintext is backwards!James Gillogly's paper: The Beale Cipher: A Dissenting Opinion (on line). This paper indicates a string of letters that indicate that the pamphlet DOI is the key to B1, but that B1 MAY also be a hoax. Well, most of the cryptogram is a hoax except for the well hidden ERE FEN DUE RED KNEE. I am not concerned about the error I made with word #71 as there were many errors in the encipherment of B2 as well.
The plaintext is very short and to the point. If one finds red knee, one digs at the low spot and perhaps finds what is hidden? Is there a treasure? I don't know for sure. What I do know is that a message was placed in B1 and this is a huge find.
If you take the Beale Papers as written you would have only 32, 154 acres to search all within four miles of Buford's. I believe I will keep my search in Bedford County, Virginia. Nice hills and valleys, don't like the swamps. About 93% less area to search and better terrain.
What was red there? Besides newspapers...
...and there is a very strong possibility that you are also wrong.These people are wrong... !!
[h=2]CODEBREAKER COMMENTS ABOUT BEALE CIPHERS[/h]"lies rather beyond the range of possibility"- Col George Fabyan
"diabolical ingenuity, specifically designed to lure the unwary reader"- William Friedman
"nothing more or less than a hoax"- Elizabeth Smith Friedman
"the Beale treasure is likely to be a hoax, invented by whomever authored the Beale Papers"-
Dr Todd Mateer
YEP! "Red Knee" is BIG LICK (aka Roanoke...), in VIRGINIA. To CLARIFY: Back in the OLDEST of days, Roanoke/Big Lick was AKA the GREAT SALT MARSH, where wild animals would come & lick the salt in various areas. THENCE, it became BIG LICK (I am NOT making this up... to quote Dave Berry). SO! Plow up near Roanoke area... PROBABLY near Bonsack, on Rt. 460, as you go into Roanoke, Va. Dunno.Indian settlements near Buford's