Voynich Zodiac Gemini and the workshop of Diebold Lauber…
I’m cautiously optimistic that a breakthrough has just emerged to do with the Art History origins of the Voynich Manuscript’s puzzling zodiac pages, that would appear to connect them with Diebold...
View ArticleNetta Fornario’s missing papers…
It’s one of those strange stories that sounds oddly romantic at first, then somewhat confusing, before ultimately ending up sad. The tale of Nora Emily (‘Netta’) Fornario’s curious death on Iona in...
View ArticleThe Usenet “Markovian Parallax Denigrate” mystery…
During 5th August 1996, a number of unmoderated Usenet groups were deluged by computer generated spam. Catherine Hampton, a group administrator for alt.religion.christian.boston-church, wrote: We have...
View ArticleIntroduction to Beale Cipher B2…
To decipher the sequence of numbers that make up the second Beale Cipher (‘B2’), you use them to index into the words a slightly-mucked-around version of the Declaration of Independence (A.K.A. a “book...
View ArticleAt last: “Ronald Francis” was Dr Douglas Buxton Hendrickson of 13 Pier St,...
Thanks to online commenter Clive (who was at a screening of the Somerton Man documentary in Glenelg a short time ago), we now know that “Ronald Francis” (in whose car the Somerton Man’s Rubaiyat was...
View ArticleTrying to identify the mysterious letter ‘^’ on the top line of Voynich f116v…
It is both interesting and intriguing that Voynich f116v – the final page of the Voynich Manuscript – contains several lines of as-yet-unaccounted-for text. What is interesting is that these lines are...
View ArticleHendrickson REWIIIIIIIIIIIIND….?!?!?
I’ve just had a nice email from Derek Abbott, who tells me that even though the recent documentary’s producer Wayne Groom was – for a long time – convinced that Ronald Francis was Dr Donald Buxton...
View ArticleAt last (Take #2): “Ronald Francis” was chemist John Freeman of 24A Jetty...
Apologies again for previously repeating the incorrect identification of “Ronald Francis” as Dr Douglas Buxton Hendrickson. However I can fully rectify that in the best way possible, by passing on...
View ArticleScorpion S1, a different view…
The story of the ‘Scorpion’ letters to John Walsh, host of “America’s Most Wanted” and (more recently) “The Hunt with John Walsh”, is now reasonably well known. From 1991, Walsh received a string of...
View ArticleGustina Scaglia, the Machine Complex Authors, and weak vs strong research...
For more than forty years, the late historian Gustina Scaglia researched 15th and 16th manuscripts containing drawings of machines. This led to her writing (some with Frank D. Prager) a number of...
View Article“Folklore: Prince Edward Island” by Sterling Ramsay…
My bibliographic search for more information about the Hollow River Cipher led to Sterling Ramsay’s (1973) “Folklore: Prince Edward Island”. It’s a nice little book, that tries to enjoy local folkloric...
View ArticleSeventeen syllables, right?
Haikus? “People waiting for the toilet on planes”? And that’s poetic? The post Seventeen syllables, right? appeared first on Cipher Mysteries.
View ArticleRefining Beale Cipher B1’s cipher table…
By now, everyone and his/her crypto-dog must surely know that the second Beale Cipher (“B2”) was enciphered using a lookup table created from the first letters of the words of the Declaration of...
View Article“Mario translates the Voynich Manuscript”
“Among other revelations, he discovers it was a treatise on Spacesynth“, says the author of the following video, Hagar Hogan. I’m not sure if that actually helps explain it, but it may possibly be some...
View ArticleIs it time for the Secret History of the First World War to emerge?
I recently went to a very enjoyable evening of history lectures at Kingston Grammar School’s swanky Performing Arts Centre / Theatre, a local celebration of this year’s (2018) centenary of the end (or,...
View ArticleUsage patterns in the Beale Ciphers…
Even though Beale Ciphers B1, B2, and B3 each consist of similar-looking strings of numbers, it’s far from obvious that they have been generated in the same way (i.e. that they all result from using...
View ArticleDiebold Lauber’s workshop and the knotty problem of necklines…
The recent surge of Voynich research interest in Diebold Lauber’s workshop has come about thanks to Koen Gheuen’s research. Koen’s focus was on the series of drawings in the centre of Voynich...
View ArticleThe linguistic diffusion of Cisiojanus mnemonics…
Even though (academic opinion has it that) the idea of a Cisiojanus feast-name mnemonic first appeared in Germany in the 12th Century and largely diffused there, there is no such thing as a single...
View ArticleA Voynich Manuscript pincer attack on Cancer…
Every couple of years, I wake up in the middle of the night with an all-new version of The Big Idea – you know, the one that’s finally going to unlock the Voynich Manuscript’s secrets. These...
View ArticleSeventy years of the Somerton Man mystery…
Seventy years ago this weekend, a man’s body was found on Somerton Beach just south-west of Adelaide: our inability to identify this “Somerton Man” or even to reconstruct any significant part of his...
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