[UA] THE BEALE CIPHERS

[Eves, Eric D.]

I read about that about 8 yeats ago, and I think now as I thought then: it
was a hoax.  

Simple, really;  You make three unreadable documents.  One of them you write
in a difficult but possible to crack cipher, and that one is the one
descibing the vast riches, exactly what would be needed to get people
working hard to crack the first one with the location.  

I mean, if it were real, would they have recorded the names of their heirs
in impossible code?  Or would they have had at least that section clearly
written in plain english so no one would go "Oh well, we have the treasure,
but we can't crack the code with the names of the people we are to give it
to.  Better keep it."  It just makes no rational sense.

Since it has a logical flaw (well, several, but this is the simplest one),
and is exactly what would be needed to make people waste huge amounts of
time, I think the only reasonable answer is that it was a hoax.  

Of course, in UA it may be different.  I  bet even if it was a hoax there
would be at least half a dozen possible  schools that could get significant
or better charges by creating this sort of irritating enigma for the world
to look over.  The question is, what were those charges used for?

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