Charles Dellschau, Columbia, The Special AKA, and Scooby Doo…
At the time of his death in Houston, Texas in 1923, Charles Dellschau was nothing more than an unknown (and indeed unremarkable) retired butcher. Yet a century later, his drawings of brightly-coloured...
View Article“NB Gas” decoded (in plain sight)…?
Charles Dellschau’s curious notebooks talk elliptically about a mysterious lifting gas called “NB Gas”: this was discovered (or, perhaps more accurately, harnessed) by miner Peter Mennis. It was...
View ArticleIsaac, CARET, Starfire Tor, Alienware…
Since posting up some images way back in 2009, I haven’t really covered the (allegedly) ‘alien’ language claimed to have been stolen from a (fictitious) “CARET” research institute in Palo Alto by a...
View ArticleIsaac Asimov, L. Sprague de Camp, and Robert Heinlein at the Philadelphia...
Perhaps you well-informed people already knew, but recently I was surprised to discover that during WWII, these three luminary SF writers all worked at the Naval Aviation Experimental Station in...
View ArticleIn search of Mauritian shipwrecks 1740-1750…
If the Last Will and Testament written by Andre Bernardin Nageon de l’Estang is genuine (or, at least, perhaps only modestly embellished in the copying) and – as part of that – was indeed written by...
View ArticleIn search of “Isaac”…
Who was the mysterious “Isaac“, who claimed to have been working on an alien language in a Palo Alto research institute (“CARET”) in 1984-1987? In 2007, this Isaac posted a page on the free hosting...
View ArticleThe Silpho Moor UFO cipher mystery…
Today, I have a curious story of a 1957 cipher mystery from Scarborough in Yorkshire, with a flying saucer spin. And – best of all – its secret history has (as far as I know) never been fully revealed....
View ArticleBefore Isaac, there was Chad (etc)…
When “Isaac” posted his alien alphabet / antigravity stuff in June 2007, it was (he claimed) in response to recent reports of strange ‘dragonfly’-shaped drones, some of which had the same ‘alien’...
View ArticleOn inserts and Google search…
In the last few days, looking at the whole Isaac / Chad ‘alien alphabet’ mystery has made me think more broadly about cipher mysteries. What I’m trying to do is to work out what the relationship...
View ArticleDaniel Krieg on the (1782) “Indus”…
I’ve recently had some interesting back-and-forth email correspondence about the Nageon de l’Estang treasure documents with independent Swiss researcher Daniel Krieg. In recent years, Daniel has made...
View ArticleIn search of a January 1748 French prize ship…
Andre Bernardin Nageon de l’Estang claimed to have been shipwrecked (very probably in Mauritius), which surely means that he was a crew member on board a French-controlled ship. Since my last post,...
View ArticleIndian Ocean ships 1747-1748 and French marine archives…
As the many journaux de bord listed in my previous post attest, the Marine JJ series of documents is where lots of good stuff is to be found. An appendix in a 974-page historical slavery report I found...
View ArticleDarrell Huff, Voynich theories, and “How to Lie [to yourself] with Statistics”…
Darrell Huff’s (1954) “How to Lie With Statistics” is a twentieth century classic that’s well worth reading (I have a well-thumbed copy on my bookshelf that I bought back in the 1980s). It’s basically...
View ArticleWas Bernardin’s “Indus” built in Bombay Dockyard?
In his (much-examined, much-copied, and probably much-misunderstood) Last Will and Testament, Andre Bernardin Nageon de l’Estang (1715-1750) claimed to have retrieved “richesses de l’Indus” and hidden...
View ArticleJean Marie Justin Nageon de l’Estang, revisited…
A comment today by Anthony Lallaizon to Cipher Mysteries seems to have thrown the Bernardin Nageon de l’Estang timeline up in the air (if not completely out of the window). This definitely required a...
View ArticleShips called “Indus”, 1783-1798…
Given the solid dating of Jean-Marie Justin Nageon de l’Estang’s birth to 1776, I decided to revisit the issue of whether the “richesses de l’Indus” refers to an actual ship. We’ve already seen a brig...
View ArticleLockyer vs Lockyer Divorce Files (continued)…
[The following is a guest post from Cipher Mysteries commenter Behrooz: all I’ve done is reformat it slightly into WordPress/HTML markup. Enjoy! — NickP] I have the good news that, following some...
View ArticleOn the trail of Dorothy Robertson…
Here’s a guest post by Cipher Mysteries commenter Pat, who has been hot on the trail of Dorothy Jean Robertson in Trove. There are, of course, many different Dorothy Robertsons out there, but Pat...
View ArticleCharles de la Ronciere’s thoughts on Le Flibustier Mysterieux…
While searching Gallica just now to try to see if Charles de la Ronciere had donated his personal papers to the Bibliotheque Nationale (TL;DR: I didn’t find anything, but maybe something is there), I...
View ArticleM3y C7s a1d a H3y N1w Y2r to y1u a1l!
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