the 'unsolvable book cipher with $60M of gold' — tried to debunk it, can't fully kill it

Everyone knows the Beale Ciphers by now but I went in this month genuinely trying to prove the whole thing's an 1880s hoax. The story: Thomas Beale buries a fortune in Bedford County, Virginia around 1820, leaves three coded papers with an innkeeper named Morriss, vanishes. Paper #2 got solved using……