Lux Esoterica (Nifiluz)

Somewhere beneath the rolling hills of Bedford County, Virginia, in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains, there may lie a buried fortune in gold, silver, and jewels — thousands of pounds of it, worth a staggering sum. Or there may lie nothing at all. The only guide to whether the treasure is real, and to where it is hidden, is a set of three pages covered in nothing but numbers: the Beale Ciphers. For more than a century and a half, cryptographers, treasure hunters, and obsessives of every kind have poured their lives into these three strings of numbers, and one of the three has yielded its secret. The other two — the ones that would name the treasure's location and the people it belongs to — have never been broken. They remain among the most famous unsolved codes in the world, and to this day no one can say for certain whether they conceal a real fortune or the greatest hoax in the history of American treasure lore. A Stranger and a Locked Box The story, as it comes down to u...