Karga Seven’s “The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer” commences…
The History Channel’s new Karga Seven-produced series “The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer” has just started: it features top Zodiac Killer researcher Dave Oranchak, Copiale Cipher cracker (and Voynich...
View ArticleGerry Feltus’s “The Unknown Man”, now available as an ebook…
A little while back, I became aware that “The Unknown Man” – which I consider to be the #1 factual account of the Somerton Man cold case / Tamam Shud mystery – was about to be republished in ebook...
View ArticleA Voynich Morning
My left arm, disembodied, slowly rejoins the mothership Searching for adverbs, unsuccessful as ever Distant aches filed for future reference Blur, wash, smudged light chinks overpainting Eyes that...
View ArticleGrudge match: Jess Feldman’s “Call It A Premonition” vs supercomputer Zodiac...
What journalists the world over love to do is to bring two vaguely related things together to review or discuss, as if by doing so they identify an incipient trend or fashion. Once pointed out, of...
View ArticleA second “The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer” episode…
A new day, and a new episode of “The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer” (S01 E02, in programme guide speak) to trawl through. Luckily, though, this week’s episode proved to be fairly lightweight: Increasingly...
View Article“Drawing Close – Voynich Series”, by Sabina Sallis…
Here’s another Voynich-themed art show to add to what is already a medium-sized list: “Drawing Close – Voynich Series”, by Sabina Sallis. It’s at the Customs House art centre in Mill Dam conservation...
View ArticleVoynich metatheories, Rich SantaColoma, and Document X…
What on earth, you may reasonably ask, is a Voynich “metatheory”? I use the term for a specific kind of Voynich Manuscript theory that seeks to explain more or less all its puzzling features by...
View ArticleThe Donna Lass cipher, solved… but no happy ending, sorry.
OK, I’m going to start this post by embedding S01E03 of the History Channel’s “The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer”, because this is what started me on the road to the solution to the Donna Lass cipher:...
View ArticleJim Handlin and the Voynich Manuscript…
If you think what the world really needs right now is yet another Voynich theory, preferably one that’s been stewing in some guy’s head for more than a decade and that could well emerge in book form...
View ArticleThe Zodiac Killer, the Albany Cipher, and David Oranchak’s “Connie Henly”…
The new week brings a further episode of the History Channel’s “The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer”, not for the first time promising much but delivering little (Donna Lass car directions, really?) – the...
View ArticleProfessor Stephen Bax (1960 – 2017)
I learned, via an email from Rene Zandbergen today, that Voynich theorist Stephen Bax died a few days ago. It was only last month that he and Rene jointly formed the Voynich research presence at the...
View ArticleAntilanguages, and Calabar lesbian cryptic languages…
You may not be aware that there are, out in the world, many private languages – languages that offer speakers and listeners within a particular group or subculture the ability to talk about things that...
View Article“The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer” season finale, and Craig Bauer’s Z340 cipher...
Without any further ado, here’s The History Channel’s “The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer” season #1 finale, wherein Craig Bauer, having immersed himself almost completely in Zodiac Killer arcana, conjures...
View ArticleThe Zodiac Killer’s Z13 cipher meets his Z340 cipher…
After The History Channel’s recent season of “The Hunt For The Zodiac Killer” programmes (episodes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), I thought it was time to get back to some non-fake-news codebreaking research. In...
View Article2017: cipher mystery books I’ve bought this year…
The total of my cipher mystery books purchases for 2017 was £260, which was actually a little lower than recent years (it’s been fairly quiet). For a change this year, I thought I’d list them here in...
View ArticleLa Buse film being shot…
“La Buse, l’or maudit des Pirates de l’océan Indien” is a two-part (i.e. 2 x 52 minutes) documentary with fictional re-enactments (you get the idea) made by Kapali Studios, and due for release around...
View ArticleCipher Mysteries Christmas Panto: “Jack and the Cursed Manuscript” (Part One)…
“Jack and the Cursed Manuscript” – Part One 1. MEDIEVAL HOVEL (THOUGH AS THE LIGHTS COME UP, IT INCREASINGLY RESEMBLES A MODERN-DAY CRACK DEN) JACK’S MUM: Woe is me! I’m a poor old peasant woman ‘oo...
View ArticleDisney Star Wars, and Shrek’s MI5 Adventure…
Just before Christmas, I went up to London for what is rapidly becoming a very traditional slice of overdone turkey at the BFI IMAX cinema. I refer, of course, to the third Disney Star Wars film, “The...
View ArticlePaul Rubin’s cipher, revisited…
Back in 2015, I blogged about the ciphertext that was found taped to Paul Rubin’s stomach, and also wondered whether Rubin might have suffered from paranoid schizophrena, and whether the FBI would ever...
View ArticleCracking the Paul Rubin Cipher…
I’ve noticed a number of things about the Paul Rubin ciphertext, which are definitely beyond what the FBI’s cryptanalysts managed to find. Please feel free to advance these yet further! The Paul Rubin...
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