Renown treasure hunter H.Charles Beil is America's  most famed treasure hider and interactive storyteller. You won't be sitting on the sofa with his books. He believes that if you want to captivate a student with history, bring adventure to the narrative, and monetize the experience. He is the originator of "Interactive Historical Fiction".

Beil received his first degree in History from Duquesne University. He studied historical geology, archaeology, and oceanography under Skinner and other world-renowned geologists and archaeologists. He received additional certifications in archaeology from the Joukowsky Institute at Brown University, Nubian Archaeology from Emory University, the University of Tel Aviv in the History of Jerusalem, and the U.S. Department of the Interior in Managing Archaeological Collections and Archaeology for Interpreters.

Well known for his research and GIS capabilities, Beil pioneered the use of remote survey and overlaying of maps and spatial data to discover heretofore unrecognized data sets leading to lost historical sites.

H.Charles Beil is more than a historian. He is a treasure hunter with more than fifty years of experience in the field and more than 30 years of experience in education spanning secondary to adult, specializing in history and technology. He is a "real-life Indiana Jones"  who has over thirty of his own treasures hidden across America!

As a writer and historical archaeologist, H.Charles is published in newspapers, magazines, and digital media as well as in blogs, websites. He has been cast in full feature-length movies. He is also the author behind a new type of interactive fiction that provides the reader with real-life treasure hunting adventures where the treasures he has buried reach into the millions of dollars with clues contained within his books.