Once back on the ground, Mike and Josh meet up with Steve Cole, Mike's treasure-hunting partner. They go up in an aeroplane and fly around to find old trails that the Beale treasure could've been buried near. From Lynchburg, Josh heads to Bedford County, Virginia and to Buford's Tavern where it's reported that the treasure is within four miles of. A publisher, James Ward, was able to decode one of the documents by using the Declaration of Independence. Once in Lynchburg, he visits the Old Washington Inn where Thomas Beale supposedly gave the owner Mr Morriss the Beale Papers. Josh drives from New York to Lynchburg, Virginia and visits Foamhenge. In time the box is opened and a publisher named James Ward reveals the three coded documents in a pamphlet called "The Beale Papers." Beale was never seen or heard from again. Beale locked the papers in an iron box and gave them to a local innkeeper with instructions to open the container only if he didn't return.
Worried that the money could fall into the wrong hands, he crafted three coded documents that contain the names of his teammates, a description of the contexts, and more importantly, the exact location of the treasure. Beale transported the 8,000-pound haul to a secret hiding spot in the backcountry of Virginia. "The story begins in 1817 with a Virginia adventurer named Thomas Beale, who led an expedition out West that discovered huge quantities of gold and silver. He then meets up with a crypto-analyst to get further evidence on the hoax theory. Ward, the author of the Beale Papers encoded. He meets up with local treasure hunters and explores a 4-mile search radius in Bedford County using a printed copy of the Declaration of Independence, believed to have hidden symbols that James B. Gates searches the Virginia backcountry in search of the Thomas Beale treasure.
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