Post by Michael on Mar 22, 2014 13:55:55 GMT -5
One of the few truth's that Chuck Kenworthy wrote in his books was that ..."once the treasure bug bites you, it's got you for good"....or similar words. In fact, I'd be interested in knowing just how many people HAVE gone nuts due to treasure hunting, especially in the Beale case. Today, there is no doubt that there are two types of people going nuts over the Beale. The first type is the type of treasure hunter who goes nuts because he doesn't have the knowledge that is needed in order to decipher these heavily coded treasure maps. The second type of people who are going bonkers are those people who belong to the secret societies, people who are scrambling to inject the treasure hunting world with false leads, in a last ditch effort to keep the Beale, and other, treasure vaults "safe."
About a decade back in time, maybe more, there was a man named Richard. I won't go into his last name, but I WILL use his psychotic behaviour as proof as to what treasure hunting does to some people, as well as to their ego's when they find out that they have been mis-lead by their own brain.
Richard wanted to solve the Beale Ciphers soooo badly. He wanted the fame and fortune that would surely come along with being 'the one" who deciphered these codes and, surely, EVERYONE would look up to him as "The Treasure Finder."
Richard, at least in his own mind, was finally able to solve the Beale Ciphers. He was so proud of himself (as you will soon read), that he made his "solution" to the ciphers available to the public, on-line...for a mere 10 or 20 dollars.
Richard, knowing my ability to decipher, requested that I take a look at his manuscript, and that he would set it up so that I could get a free copy of this solution, and then report back what I thought of it. I said "ok."
It took me about three minutes to realize that Richard was a not playing with a full deck. In his opening statement to the people (who foolishly bought this solution) he states the following: "I was working alone in an office, and the moment I realized what I had, I felt someone grab me from behind in a playful hug. I turned to see who it was, but no one was there. To my dying day, I will swear it had to be Thomas Jefferson Beale, overjoyed that after one hundred eighty one years, someone knew, and could prove he was for real." Richard goes on to say: "On the next pages I will describe to you how I deciphered the first word, guessed at the second and found the third, which allowed me to complete me to complete the twelve word description of the treasure location."
Folks, there is NO room for guessing with ANY coded treasure map. If you'rer guessing, you've already lost. But you see, some people can't handle that loss. They refuse to give up and, instead of just putting it all away, they take a different route to the "truth." In this case, Richard just refused to accept that the Beale Ciphers would NEVER be solved by him. And, for me to read this solution all the way through was an agonizing feat. Mental disturbances pop-up all through this manuscript.
When I reported back to Richard, I was very polite...telling him that "it's an interesting concept" and I left it at that. In a few weeks, Richard was blurting out his solution all over the web, especially at sites having to do with the Beale Ciphers.
Needless to say, Richard wasn't aware of the dis-info agents (at that ime, neither was I)......and these agents tore Richard and his solution apart. Richard responded violently, threatening to do unspeakable things to these agents of deception. He made himself look totally psychotic (but then, his solution made him look that way, too)
I have seen this very same thing happen to many people, including myself. But once you see the whole picture, these agents don't have any affect on you. You KNOW that they're going to show up to discredit the truth, not that Richard had the truth.
It was years ago that I explained how to decipher the letter portion of the Beale Ciphers. And, through the years since, my knowledge has come a long way. For example, just today in another post about the Beale Ciphers I expanded on the fact that BUFORDS was actually an abbreviation of Buffalo Roads (now known as Forks of Buffalo), and that Forks of Buffalo is the second step on the treasure trail to the Beale Vault. After reading this statement about how the treasure was buried "four miles west of Bufords" I realised that the number 4 is equivalent to the letter "D" in the alphabet. The "D" is another symbol for the DUCK (I know what Kenworthy says about the "D"). So, in essence, this statement about how the treasure was buried four miles west of Bufords PROVES MY DECIPHERING WRONG. But hey, that's what it's all about. You try, you fail, you try again, you fail again. Failure is not a negative thing. It is a positive thing. Failure will, eventually, get you to where you want to be, as long as you have the proper information to work with.
It is this failure that makes some people go absolutely nuts, especially when a coded treasure map is involved. And there's no doubt about, the Beale Ciphers have, literally, driven people crazy.
About a decade back in time, maybe more, there was a man named Richard. I won't go into his last name, but I WILL use his psychotic behaviour as proof as to what treasure hunting does to some people, as well as to their ego's when they find out that they have been mis-lead by their own brain.
Richard wanted to solve the Beale Ciphers soooo badly. He wanted the fame and fortune that would surely come along with being 'the one" who deciphered these codes and, surely, EVERYONE would look up to him as "The Treasure Finder."
Richard, at least in his own mind, was finally able to solve the Beale Ciphers. He was so proud of himself (as you will soon read), that he made his "solution" to the ciphers available to the public, on-line...for a mere 10 or 20 dollars.
Richard, knowing my ability to decipher, requested that I take a look at his manuscript, and that he would set it up so that I could get a free copy of this solution, and then report back what I thought of it. I said "ok."
It took me about three minutes to realize that Richard was a not playing with a full deck. In his opening statement to the people (who foolishly bought this solution) he states the following: "I was working alone in an office, and the moment I realized what I had, I felt someone grab me from behind in a playful hug. I turned to see who it was, but no one was there. To my dying day, I will swear it had to be Thomas Jefferson Beale, overjoyed that after one hundred eighty one years, someone knew, and could prove he was for real." Richard goes on to say: "On the next pages I will describe to you how I deciphered the first word, guessed at the second and found the third, which allowed me to complete me to complete the twelve word description of the treasure location."
Folks, there is NO room for guessing with ANY coded treasure map. If you'rer guessing, you've already lost. But you see, some people can't handle that loss. They refuse to give up and, instead of just putting it all away, they take a different route to the "truth." In this case, Richard just refused to accept that the Beale Ciphers would NEVER be solved by him. And, for me to read this solution all the way through was an agonizing feat. Mental disturbances pop-up all through this manuscript.
When I reported back to Richard, I was very polite...telling him that "it's an interesting concept" and I left it at that. In a few weeks, Richard was blurting out his solution all over the web, especially at sites having to do with the Beale Ciphers.
Needless to say, Richard wasn't aware of the dis-info agents (at that ime, neither was I)......and these agents tore Richard and his solution apart. Richard responded violently, threatening to do unspeakable things to these agents of deception. He made himself look totally psychotic (but then, his solution made him look that way, too)
I have seen this very same thing happen to many people, including myself. But once you see the whole picture, these agents don't have any affect on you. You KNOW that they're going to show up to discredit the truth, not that Richard had the truth.
It was years ago that I explained how to decipher the letter portion of the Beale Ciphers. And, through the years since, my knowledge has come a long way. For example, just today in another post about the Beale Ciphers I expanded on the fact that BUFORDS was actually an abbreviation of Buffalo Roads (now known as Forks of Buffalo), and that Forks of Buffalo is the second step on the treasure trail to the Beale Vault. After reading this statement about how the treasure was buried "four miles west of Bufords" I realised that the number 4 is equivalent to the letter "D" in the alphabet. The "D" is another symbol for the DUCK (I know what Kenworthy says about the "D"). So, in essence, this statement about how the treasure was buried four miles west of Bufords PROVES MY DECIPHERING WRONG. But hey, that's what it's all about. You try, you fail, you try again, you fail again. Failure is not a negative thing. It is a positive thing. Failure will, eventually, get you to where you want to be, as long as you have the proper information to work with.
It is this failure that makes some people go absolutely nuts, especially when a coded treasure map is involved. And there's no doubt about, the Beale Ciphers have, literally, driven people crazy.