Lesser Known Encryptions that Defy Explanation

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often last for centuries those people lived a really long time if that went you know some written in english and other languages are as easy to read as magazines or newspapers but they're often open to numerous interpretations ranging from the painfully mundane to the downright unbelievable others contain obscure images symbols numbers and letters that may or may not be decipherable codes at all that's it if all of this sounds interesting get comfy because we're about to take a closer look at four lesser-known mysterious encryptions the beal ciphers or beel papers are a set of three ciphertexts which supposedly disclose the location of more than three thousand pounds of gold five thousand pounds of silver and assorted precious stones that on today's market could be valued at more than 100 million us dollars of the three texts only the second containing a description of the treasure has been cracked while the first and third which give its precise location and the identity of its owners and their kin have not the story goes all the way back to 1820 when a man named thomas j beal allegedly gave a box containing mysterious and unreadable documents to a local innkeeper before disappearing forever the uninterested inkie the subsequently stuffed the items in a closet for more than two decades before curiosity finally got the better of him but after briefly studying the content he apparently forgot about it for another 20 years before giving it to a friend who spent decades attempting to crack the ciphertext's codes and finding the treasure of which he was unable to determine its location in the most general of terms according to him it was located somewhere in bedford county virginia an expanse of land covering approximately 753 square miles really narrowing it down unable to solve the remaining ciphertext he ultimately gave up and urged his friend james b ward to publish a pamphlet in 1885 hoping it would stir public interest and possibly wrangle up someone who could solve the mystery and uncover the precious metals and gems the pamphlets claimed that beale had been part of a group of more than two dozen men who'd stumbled upon the treasure in the early 19th century while hunting in buffalo in what was then spanish territory santa fe didn't waver mexico or currently the state of colorado legend has it that the treasure was so immense that the team spent nearly a year and a half extracting it from the mine shaft where it had been hidden after which beale was charged with transporting it to virginia for burial in a secret location since the story psychedex and pamphlets emerged numerous attempts have been made to solve the mystery once and for all but all of them have failed some delved into the story even claim that it's a hoax plain and simple for example world-renowned cryptographers discovering evidence that proved the documents couldn't have been written when claimed because among other things they include words that weren't commonly used until decades later the ciphertext were also subjected to scrutiny by sperry's univac supercomputer in the 1960s and scientists claim that although they've been poorly encoded the documents did contain intelligently placed texts that couldn't have appeared randomly though the computer was unable to determine their meaning other expert cryptographers assert that there's absolutely no evidence that the two remaining ciphertexts are anything more than random and meaningless strings of characters in addition writing experts who analyzed the texts determined that it was almost certainly written by james b ward the man who published the pamphlet in 1885 which brought the whole affair to light subsequently making him a regional celebrity of sorts it's even suggested that famously deranged author edgar allan poe was the hoax's perpetrator largely because he lived and studied in the area was known to be a lover of unsolved mysteries and he frequently placed requests in newspapers inviting readers to submit coded messages which he often succeeded in solving alas will probably never know the truth at least until some unsuspecting hayseed hits pay dirt while digging for earthworms in rural bedford county if there's anything there at all it could just be an elaborate prank right from pictures of unidentifiable plants and indecipherable texts to strange watermarks and possible references to the birth of christ since this discovery in hungary more than 200 years ago the rohance codex has baffled and intrigued fans of arcane mysteries around the world named after wilfred voynich a polish bookseller who bought it in 1912 the voynich manuscript's history may date back as much as four centuries earlier the book came to light in the early 19th century when it was part of the personal library of a prominent hungarian count who later in life donated his expansive collection to the country's academy of sciences curators cataloging the items noted that the codex resembled numerous historic medieval hungarian texts that they'd seen before but though it bore similarities to them its nearly 450 pages contained scores of unrecognizable and likely coded writing that included a wide variety of shapes and symbols as well as more than 80 drawings obscure plants military campaigns and images of christian hindu and islamic stories a relatively recent radiocarbon dating tests have determined that the vellum on which the text is written dates from the early 1400s but though experts in various fields have attempted to validate its authenticity and meaning as well as the identity of its author their efforts have been largely unsuccessful it's generally agreed that at the very least it does contain elements of multiple languages from hindu to old hungarian but even so the recognizable script is dwarfed by the confusing coded portion which researchers have determined may contain nearly 10 times more characters than any other known alphabet likewise each of the codex's papers includes a watermark featuring an anchor inside a circle framed within a radiant star which has been dated back to the 1530s or about 100 years before the texts were reportedly written leading some to claim that it is a copy of an original work that's probably long gone scholars ultimately theorize that it's everything from a previously undiscovered derivation of latin to an indian brahmi script or a historical account of the barclay people who fought against the hungarians in an invasion in the 11th and 12th centuries this does bear some weight based on the following translated excerpt in grey numbers in the fierce battle without fear go go as a hero break ahead with great noise to sweep away and defeat the hungarian but as is often the case there seems to exist some evidence to support each theory even though so-called experts can't agree on the text's origination and whether it's meant to be read from left to right or vice versa though the various theories and their sporting evidence are largely incomplete and conclusive and prone to professional disagreement in the 20th century the manuscript was subjected to computer-based analysis however if the codex contains one true overarching encryption it has remained stubbornly hidden to even the analytical powers of modern computers hence many see this as definitive proof that the majority of its contents are undecipherable and if that's the case it may in fact be a hoax and many scholars point to a man named samuel litterai neems who lived from 1796 to 1842 as the most likely culprit hungarian antiquarian of transylvanian descent and co-founder of budapest's national library he is known to have been a prolific forger who did much of his best work around the time that the codex found its way into the spotlight though no evidence directly linking him to the work has ever been discovered many scholars consider it a clear-cut case of fraud that warrants no additional study well others of course disagree because of course they're going to [Music] elberton georgia home of the georgia guidestones is referred to as the granite capital of the world for good reason located 110 miles northeast of atlanta the town of 4600 sits atop a massive granite deposit reported to be 35 miles long six miles wide and as many as three miles deep in other words it was the perfect site for a thought-provoking stone monument that had scientists scholars zealots occultists and conspiracy theories all worked up since it was unveiled in 1980. it all started in the summer of 1979 when a well-dressed man using the alias rc christian walked into the office of the albertan granite finishing corporation meeting with the company's president mr christian informed him that he represented a group of secretive and wealthy out-of-state investors who for nearly two decades had been working on a project with important implications for future generations the company was hard to build a massive granite monument and its employees were sworn to strict secrecy then less than a year later on march 22 1980 the rough hewn stone structure consisted of six individual slabs standing over 19 feet tall and weighing nearly 240 000 pounds that's over 100 000 kilograms was unveiled before a crowd of 100. one man a local pastor immediately declared that it was obviously the work of devil worshipers after reading 10 tenets carved into the stones on each side of the capstone in four ancient languages was carved the phrase let these be guide stones to an age of reason likewise in english russian mandarin arabic hebrew swahili hindi and spanish the following cryptic instructions for rebuilding society after the inevitable doomsday were engraved maintain humanity under 500 million in perpetual balance with nature guide reproduction wisely improving fitness and diversity unite humanity with a living new language rule passion faith tradition and all things with tempered reason protect people and nations with fair laws and just cords let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court avoid petty laws and useless officials balance personal rights with social duties prize truth beauty love seeking harmony with the infinite be not a cancer on the earth leave room for nature his job done the mysterious mr christian was never seen again but before disappearing he left a smaller stone tablet explaining the astrological significance of the stone's placement in relation to the north star solstices and equidoxes many indignant detractors look no further than the guidestone's reference to maintaining the world's population under 500 million it's an odd and undoubtedly intentional choice of words considering that in 1980 the world's population was about 4.4 billion in fact it begs the question how should the population be reduced to 500 million in the first place some see this statement alone as irrefutable proof that the stone's creators were aligned with the mysterious new world order and eugenics movements whose dastardly ames purportedly included reducing the number of humans to more sustainable levels and improving the quality of genetics by culling undesirable segments of the population through genocide plague forced birth control and starvation i would personally say that's a bit of a stretch aren't they just building this so that if the world is destroyed people can look at it and be like okay that's a good idea that's a good idea maybe we should ignore the uh the genetics one but the others you know seem okay on the other hand some famous figures like yoko ono praise the guidestones practicality and promotion of balance and harmony because if there's anyone we should be looking to for advice on things it's yoko ono though the stones drew relatively little attention in the 80s and 90s more recently they found themselves in the international spotlight and have been vandalized repeatedly we may never know who made the stones or what exactly they mean despite being polite educated and multilingual henry dubose knees had been labeled as a lazy sociopath an egotistical genius a mass murderer a madman and a psychopath though they're not mutually exclusive descriptions whatever he was before his execution in 1882 he left behind a unique manuscript known as the dubose new ciphers his identity has never been definitively established but from what has been pieced together from his past he was born in either france or portugal and emigrated to the united states in the 1830s though next to nothing is known about his family or his childhood the handsome dapper and well spoke at mr dubose knees left in his wake a trail of at least two wealthy dead wives across the continent and possibly more his american troubles began in early 1882 when he arrived in essex county new york aboard a luxurious yacht that had departed from nearby philadelphia just a few days before shortly after his arrival he met courted and eventually married the well-to-do local widow elizabeth wells and it's not going to shock you but poor elizabeth turned up dead in the summer of that same year found strangled in the forest just outside of westport in new york after a picnic with debossiness who apparently had been seen leaving the scene and acting peculiarly debossiness was subsequently captured arrested and convicted after a trial that supposedly took less than 10 minutes justice in the past he proclaimed his innocence and undying love for his wife until the bitter end and while in jail awaiting execution by hanging he produced a body of work including romantic poems macabre drawings and bizarre cryptograms many of which haven't been deciphered to this day however some were written in plain english like this excerpt from one of his poems and free from the old world it is i will visit the heaven with mine of course it's possible that the cryptic portions of the text aren't coded messages at all but the incomprehensible rantings of a misanthropic murderer with a hopelessly deranged mind either way writing and cryptography experts who've studied his work agree that it does contain portions inspired at least in part by hieroglyphics much of which includes pictures of trees snakes horses and suns some of which have been linked to masonic symbolism only deepening the mystery there are also portions of writing in greek portuguese and latin that may give glimpses into his early life in education though the case of henry duboseney's remained a source of interest in local law it was largely forgotten about nationally and it wasn't until a book titled adirondack enigma was published by sherry farnsworth in 2010 that efforts to decode the enigma picked up steam once again but to no avail in an enticingly macabre ending to a particularly sordid tale for years henry dubosene's skull has been enclosed in a glass case and displayed in a rarely visited corner of the adirondack history center museum in elizabethtown new york along with historical accounts of his life and memorabilia from the trial and execution including the actual noose used to hang him after his sentence was handed down that is a grim museum dubose news also holds the distinction of being the last man ever hanged in essex county of which he was the second and by far the most famous so i really hope you found that video interesting if you did please do smash that like button below don't forget to subscribe also why not check out beardblazebeardblaze.com if you've got a beard that needs taken care of this is for you and thank you for [Music] watching you

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Published: Thu Apr 01 2021