I don’t think I’m very good at ciphers after all. After many months of determined effort, I haven’t succeeded at cracking the code. Argh! I hope some of you are having better luck than I have had. I keep looking for #BealeCiphers to be trending on Twitter or Instagram and read about a brilliant young…
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Seriously, has there ever been a better time than right now to collectively put our minds together and crack the most brilliant cipher ever written? It’s been nearly two whole centuries of endless attempts by the most skilled cryptographers, and yet the mystery has never been solved. Was National Treasure loosely based on the Beale…
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What are the modern day spooky stories of Sleepy Hollow and its sister village Tarrytown, NY? There must be some. Or is the average resident and visitor just too preoccupied to be observant enough to pick up on spooky spirits? Across the past four centuries, there have certainly been enough haunted moments in Sleepy Hollow…
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I recently spent an afternoon at the historic Old Dutch Church Burial Ground in Sleepy Hollow, NY intent on walking the (replacement) bridge of the Headless Horseman, made famous by the brilliant Washington Irving, author of America’s first ghost story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. (I highly recommend the audible version. It’s super creepy and makes…
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By Noreen Wise, author of The Secret Tortoise of Sleep Hollow SAGA I I’ve shared several ghost stories that seem to prove irrefutably that ghosts are real, so here’s yet another one. I truly hope that more scientists will study stories like these so we can form a set of facts that the public can…
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