The stunning mountains of Virginia offer spectacular views and endless outdoor activities, yet they also hold secrets. A nineteenth-century cache of gold is buried in the hills. Nine-foot giants once walked the ridges, pre-Columbian explorers built homes on isolated mountaintops and a ghost town lies deep in the Jefferson National Forest. The mountains conceal canines that walk upright, black panthers and a resurgent mountain lion population. The hide-and-seek champion of the world, Bigfoot, lurks in the dark hollows, phantom dogs pace the back roads and aggressive monkeys swing through the trees. UFOs crisscross the skies, and ghosts haunt the caverns below. Join Denver Michaels, local author and explorer of the unexplained, as he explores these mysteries and many more.

A treasure worth 30 million dollars. Protected by an unbreakable code. Sought by people for over 200 years. Is the treasure real? Or an elaborate hoax?Join the Treasure Hunters Club as they embark upon the greatest adventure of their lives, Where they must break an ancient Code, save a friend, and escape from an old enemy out for revenge!The time has come to crack the code.

"Solving the Beale Papers" proves one of the world's most famous unsolved cipher mysteries does not lead to a buried treasure but instead contains a series complex Masonic allegories, written in celebration of unique events which occurred within Freemasonry between 1880 and 1883.

First printed in 1885, this is pamphlet is a restored facsimile-reproduction of the original historic tract entitled The Beale Papers. These papers were the center of a controversial claim, wherein a narrative describes the origins of a treasure, amounting to a modern estimate of $20 million, that was buried somewhere in the Virginian county of Bedford in 1819 and enlarged again with another deposit in 1821. The narrative speaks of a mysterious figure named Thomas Jefferson Beale who left these papers with his innkeeper after some short visits and was never heard from again. The numeric cyphers within, once decoded, are said to provide the precise location of the treasure; since believed to be in the foothills of Blue Ridge Mountains. These cyphers have been challenged by several prominent researchers, cryptologists, mathematicians, and historians since they were first made public. Genealogists too have endeavored to discover the identity of their author and, in the mid 1900s, The Beale Cypher Association was developed to both conduct research on and compile a library of reports and memoranda concerning the cyphers. David Khan, author of Codebreakers, declared in 1972 his belief that the papers were an elaborate hoax. Yet in 2001, a Freedom of Information Act request lead to the declassification of a plethora of reports and studies of The Beale Papers, held by National Security Agency (NSA).Though with all the controversy and fame brought to this story in centuries past, none have alluded to its discovery. Even to this modern day, none have been able to come publicly forward to legitimately provide the solution to the riddle within, nor give proof that the treasure has been claimed. Are these cyphers an unbreakable code without the required key? Are the papers simply a centuries old American hoax meant to attract tourism to the county? or, turn a profit in pamphlet sales? Whatever the truth of the matter is, this document is a mysterious piece of early American history that is enveloped with such obscurity that hundreds, if not thousands of men, have dedicated decades of their life to solving the puzzle, or searching within the wilderness of Bedford County, with the small yet lingering hope that they with discover the Beale Treasure.

The TREASURE'S TROVE COMPANION was written to get readers thinking about treasures and treasure hunting. It was also written to encourage the ability to see things that you don't ordinarily see - like the clues that are hidden in the fairy tale that will lead you to twelve beautiful jewels.