Mental Floss does the Beale Ciphers…
I know, I know: this is the same Mental Floss that also publishes articles like 10 Things You Might Not Know About Jeff Goldblum (sample fact: “My first wife and I would bring our juicer on planes, and...
View ArticleA saunter through Philadelphia’s Society Hill to Cherry Garden…
Following on from the 1716 treasure map letter I posted about a few days ago, it’s now time for a Cipher Mysteries historical saunter through Philadelphia. And why not? The Blue Anchor Inn “…at the...
View ArticleJohn Fanning Watson on Philadelphia’s pirate treasure…
Before revealing the precise modern equivalent of the location near Cherry Garden where the Society Hill treasure was allegedly buried 😉 , I think we need to take a brief detour into the world of...
View ArticleHow to find the Cherry Garden cottage…
Thanks to the help of commenter Thomas, we now have an excellent online source for the brick-built Cherry Garden cottage, courtesy of the American Philosophical Society Museum and the Ghost Gardens,...
View ArticleThe Franklin Sugar Refinery…
To summarize, we have a 1716 treasure map from Philadelphia that leads to a particular small brick building in Cherry Garden, leading downwards from the southeastern corner of Society Hill to the...
View ArticleWho is your Voynich best girl / nymph?
In the somewhat 2d world of anime fandom, fans (whether Weeaboo or Wapanese) express their like / preference / undying love for a specific female character within a given anime / show / political party...
View ArticleA quicky word puzzle for you…
What connects “perpetuity”, “Galahads”, and “zzz”? Moreover, why might the French struggle to solve this puzzle? The post A quicky word puzzle for you… appeared first on Cipher Mysteries.
View ArticleReview of Jess Lourey’s “Salem’s Cipher”…
The logic is ineluctably Vulcan: unsolved historical ciphers are cool… novelists like to lard their books with cool stuff… ergo here’s yet another cipher mystery novel to review. The book’s author,...
View ArticleWhat’s the best non-theory Zodiac Killer book?
An open question to the house, really: even though I have all manner of books and papers relating to other cipher mysteries, it struck me as odd a few days ago that I have next to nothing on the Zodiac...
View ArticleDavid F. Christensen and Kennedy’s assassination…
In 1992, the American Congress ruled that all documents related to President Kennedy’s death should be released within 25 years: and when President Trump raised no objection last October, that is...
View ArticleCracking the Hollow River Cipher…
Here, courtesy of Cipher Mysteries reader Matt Malone, is a new historical cipher that he calls the “Hollow River Cipher”, which he found in a magazine from the early 1900s called “The Prince Edward...
View ArticleThe Hollow River Treasure…?
Thanks to help from Cipher Mysteries commenters Paul Relkin and Thomas, it became clear that though my initial attempt at cracking the Hollow River Cipher was close, it wasn’t as close as it could have...
View ArticleTracing The Eagle and J Crowshay…
I’ve been carefully reading the diary entry scanned in from the Prince Edward Island Magazine by Matt Malone, and wondering if it might be possible to reconstruct the secret history yet further. We now...
View Article1738 London newspapers…
As a quick reminder, we’re looking for historical evidence (a) of a brig sailing out of England (probably London) to Massachusetts (probably Boston) in late April 1738, and (b) of a proclamation that...
View ArticleNick Pelling talk on “The Ten Times Manifesto”, Google Campus London, 6pm,...
(This is a little off-topic, but what the hey.) When I’m not trying to crack unbroken historical ciphers, my day job is as a software developer: and over the last few years, I’ve got more and more...
View ArticleSherlock Holmes, the Somerton Man, and the Case of the Missing Socks…
To my eyes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle left two quite distinct legacies. The first, of course, was Sherlock Holmes, his searingly-flawed-but-unstoppably-insightful detective, whose long shadow still hangs...
View ArticleIn search of James Crowshay…
A few days ago, Cipher Mysteries commenter Paul Relkin very kindly sent me through a copy of a document listing James Crowshay’s marriage to Margaret Seaton in 1745: This inspired me to hunt for more...
View ArticleInterstate Men Charged
While trawling through the dear old Adelaide Advertiser’s Law Court section for the weeks following the Somerton Man’s death (where cases from Adelaide Juvenile court were occasionally reported), I...
View ArticleNotes on Battista Piasio [Part 1] – Nicolaus Lucarus’ funeral oration…
An excellent article by Berthold Hub (though in Spanish) on Antonio Averlino’s Sforzinda appeared not long ago, where Hub attempted to trace through many of the ideas / preceding documents that fed...
View ArticleSearching for L’Aigle…
Lots of fragments of research into the Hollow River Cipher to pass your way. The Monthly Chronologer Even though I haven’t (yet) had a chance to go into the British Library to trawl through 1738...
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