In 1820, Thomas J. Beale hid a vast amount of treasure in Virginia. Beale handed a box to an innkeeper he was acquainted with, instructing him to open if only if he did not hear from him in the next ten years. Beale then disappeared, and 20 years later, the innkeeper opened the box and found three sheets of paper inside, containing what looked like a code.

The innkeeper turned to James B. Ward who dedicated himself to decoding the texts, and, after 20 years, decoded the second of the three numbered scripts. It disclosed that Beale had hid a vault, the owners of which were disclosed in the undeciphered text #3, and exact location of which was in #1.

Unable to decipher the two other leaflets, Ward eventually decided to sell a pamphlet containing the story and the code and enlist the help of the public. The codes have never been broken.

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