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2026 15
April 2026
February 2026
- 1908 medical reference to Hallermann–Streiff syndrome (HSS)…
- Was Nick Redfern’s “Black Widow” actually Millicent Dillon? And what about “Project Chickenpox”?
January 2026
- How did Project NEPA actually start?
- Looking for a researcher near Montgomery, AL…
- Finally, I can read the Voynich Manuscript! [*]
- The Roswell capsule: was it Tex Settle’s Flying Coffin?
- Where are all the Project Mogul documents?
- From Project NEPA to Fallout’s Vault Boy…
- The Beginnings of Space Biology
- 1930s-1940s Balloon technology flow chart
- Meet Walt Singlevich, a Roswell alien…
- Duke Gildenberg on cluster balloons, Colorado, and Kenneth Arnold…
- Roswell balloon meteorology…
- Roswell and the modern secrecy silo state…
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December 2025
- A Christmas 2025 message for you all…
- An onion for your thoughts…
- Cipher Mysteries is getting so many visitors from China: but why?
- Fun modern Italian cipher mystery
- Broken Hill Associated Smelters collection at the University of Melbourne’s archives…
- Somerton Man, hair, arsenic, splenomegaly, leukemia, and Fowler’s Solution…
- Port Pirie smelting, and the politics of lead poisoning…
- Situations Vacant in Port Pirie, November 1948
- “Instrument maker with ability and experience”…
- Saying farewell to the Roswell pantomime…
- Roswell: reconstructing the Roswell experiment…
November 2025
- What were the ‘Roswell aliens’ wearing?
- John A. Keel’s “Return of the Fu-Gos”, Don Piccard’s balloon licence, and JN-25…
- What links Roswell to the CIA?
- Roswell Timeline: What Did (and Didn’t) Happen…
- ONR Commander George Hoover on Roswell…
- What exactly did Mack Brazel see that convinced him so strongly that it was ‘aliens’?
- High-altitude balloons, the Roswell ‘alien’ capsule, Carlo Ginzburg, and ethics…
- “Witness to Roswell” on the ‘alien’ capsule…
- “Nuremberg”, Nick Redfern, David DeVorkin, cosmic rays, Project Helios, and ethics…
- Otto Winzen’s version of the Settle/Burgess “Flying Coffin”…
- The US Navy, the Strato Model 7, and 1947…
- Tex Settle, Charles Burgess and the “Flying Coffin”…
- Where exactly is the third Roswell site (the “Dee Proctor Site”)?
October 2025
- Jehan le Bègue, Giovanni Alcherio, Villela-Petit, quaterni, fascicular culture… and Lisa Fagin Davis.
- Voynich Manuscript Q20A/B, Mark Clarke, and Italian vernacular recipes…
- Lisa Fagin Davis’ “The Materiality of the Voynich Manuscript”…
September 2025
July 2025
- Towards a secret history of Voynichese gallows…
- Rare (possibly unabbreviated) Voynichese words…
- A cartouche attack on the Voynich Manuscript…?
June 2025
April 2025
March 2025
February 2025
- Auguste Toussaint: Les Petites Affiches, Jean Baptiste Castaing, haches d’abordage…
- Bryce Beasley, alchemical herbals, and Voynich Herbal A…
January 2025
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December 2024
November 2024
August 2024
July 2024
June 2024
April 2024
February 2024
2023 58
December 2023
- A Victoria-licensed electrical engineer in Prosper Thomson’s Henley Beach house…?
- Prosper Thomson’s 1947 in Trove…
- M3y C7s a1d a H3y N1w Y2r to y1u a1l!
- Charles de la Ronciere’s thoughts on Le Flibustier Mysterieux…
November 2023
October 2023
September 2023
August 2023
- Jean Marie Justin Nageon de l’Estang, revisited…
- Was Bernardin’s “Indus” built in Bombay Dockyard?
- Darrell Huff, Voynich theories, and “How to Lie [to yourself] with Statistics”…
- Indian Ocean ships 1747-1748 and French marine archives…
- In search of a January 1748 French prize ship…
- Daniel Krieg on the (1782) “Indus”…
July 2023
- On inserts and Google search…
- Before Isaac, there was Chad (etc)…
- The Silpho Moor UFO cipher mystery…
- In search of “Isaac”…
- In search of Mauritian shipwrecks 1740-1750…
- Isaac Asimov, L. Sprague de Camp, and Robert Heinlein at the Philadelphia Navy Yard…
- Isaac, CARET, Starfire Tor, Alienware…
- “NB Gas” decoded (in plain sight)…?
- Charles Dellschau, Columbia, The Special AKA, and Scooby Doo…
- On NB gas, suppe, and NYMZA…
June 2023
- Cipher Mysteries is migrating from Feedburner to Follow.it …
- Two Hunters on Bolinas Ridge…
- Did the 1896-7 Airship Flap have any cipher mysteries?
- When did the 1896 California Airship Flap begin?
- The October 22 1896 Meteor was not an airship
- “The Meteor of October 22 1896”
- “A Wonderful Meteor”
- Professor Swift, John Ahern, and Rodney…
May 2023
- Thoughts on daiin daiin…
- Feynman Ciphers #2 and #3 broken!
- Dr. S. B. Battey’s (1893)”Aerial Machine” patent US502168A…
- R.I.P. Feedburner (just about)…
- Loren E. Gross’s (1974) “The UFO Wave of 1896”
- An 1896-1897 Airship Flap Bibliography…
- Dr Sumter Beauregard Battey’s family tree…
- 1896/1897 Airships and the Pittsburgh Reduction Company…
- Walter McCann’s 1897 airship photographs…
- Sumter Beauregard Battey, continued…
- Metal-Clad Airships, and the 1897 Airship Flap…
- Tex Settle’s US Navy timeline…
April 2023
- Hickey Taylor, a photo timeline…
- Hickey Taylor (and the Somerton Man?)
- The Somerton Man, where next?
- Rafał Miazga and the Rohonc Codex…
March 2023
- “Under the Counter”, the end of a long run…
- Chief Mechanist Jerry Keane and the Somerton Man…
- Voynich f116v & Hail Mary…
February 2023
- ChatGPT and the Voynich Manuscript…
- Starring Hector St Clair…
- Carl Webb, fake Mason?
- Carl Webb, bridge puzzle solver…
January 2023
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December 2022
- Voynich Manuscript: Q20 (in-)homogeneity and BAAFU…
- What happened to Voynich Q8 and Q14?
- Dating the Webbs’ family photo…
- Merry Christmas 2022 to all my Cipher Mysteries readers!
- Quire 20, order from chaos… (Part 3: Microtheories)
- Quire 20, order from chaos… (Part 2: Suggestions)
- Quire 20, order from chaos… (Part 1: Evidence)
- Attack the Block / Quire 20 (Part 3)…
- Attack the Block / Quire 20 (Part 2)…
- Attack the Block / Quire 20 (Part 1)…
- “My Name Is Charles”… Charles Richard Webb?
- A quick note on Lisa Fagin Davis’ Voynich presentation…
November 2022
October 2022
September 2022
- Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637)…
- Roswell and Oak Ridge?
- Project Mogul in NARA…
- Kevin Alexander D’Arcy – Bute or Boort?
- Carl Webb – Bromby Street, South Yarra…
- When Project Mogul met Project Helios…
- Project Mogul’s “Alamogordo II” phase…
- The Roswell Children and the Dee Proctor site…
August 2022
- This Somerton Man news cycle seems to have peaked…
- John Russell Keane (“Jack Keane”)…
- Charles Webb at Swinburne Technical College…
- First photo of Carl Webb (the Somerton Man), probably…
- Carl Webb, “electrical fitter” and “instrument maker”…
- On Carl Webb, Truth & Beauty…
July 2022
- Carl Webb & Dorothy Jean Robertson’s Marriage Certificate…
- Dorothy Jean Robertson / Dorothy Jean Webb…?
- Carl Webb’s small ads…
- Somerton Man identified as Carl “Charles” Webb (but mystery still intact)…
- Balloons, telescopes, and Tom Settle (1930-2020)…
- Small requests for help from Cipher Mysteries readers…
June 2022
May 2022
- Captain Charles Kendall at NAS Lakehurst…
- Wanted: Physicist Collaborator (to help solve a gnarly cipher mystery)…
April 2022
- Guy de Cointet’s “A Captain From Portugal” (1972)
- Patrick O’Neil, and the interwar hunt for Mauritian treasure (Part 3)…
- Patrick O’Neil, and the interwar hunt for Mauritian treasure (Part 2)…
- Patrick O’Neil, and the interwar hunt for Mauritian treasure (Part 1)…
- New article on Moustier’s cryptograms in EOS science magazine…
- Voynich Paper Suggestion #5: Raking IR images of f116v
- Voynich Paper Suggestion #4: Unpicking the k/t gallows
- Voynich Paper Suggestion #3: LIBNPIG Statistics
- Voynich paper suggestion #2: Visualising Currier A vs Currier B
- Voynich paper suggestion #1: DNA gathering analysis
January 2022
- The Kendall Family…
- Ukmyh Kipzy Puern – “Say Ah-Ah-h”
- Project Helios, J. Gordon Vaeth, David DeVorkin, and the Smithsonian…
- On Balloons and Brick Walls…
- When Project Helios briefly became “Project Durante”…
- Jeannette Piccard, Harris F. Smith, Duke Gildenberg, Robert Gilruth…
- Trying to ask good questions about Currier A and Currier B…
- Towards a history of US Military ballooning, 1945-1950…
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December 2021
- Pacific military hospitals in early 1945…
- Looking forward, ahead & up…
- Japanese War Crimes, where to start looking?
- The Truk Incident…
- The Roswell Incident: cross-referencing the Black Widow…
- The Roswell Incident, Nick Redfern, Nuremberg Trials, Fu-Go Balloon Bombs, Noborito Laboratory, and Bamboo…?
November 2021
- The Roswell ‘Alien Alphabet’: What Happened Next?
- Was the 1947 Roswell Incident a cipher mystery?
- “Roswell: First Witness” and ciphers…
October 2021
September 2021
August 2021
- “The pompous loop”…
- The Keff family that disappeared…
- The Hunt for Edouard Keff continues…
- Somerton Man: Latest News…
- Antonio Guayneri’s De Balneis, transcribed…
July 2021
- Antonio Guayneri’s De Balneis…
- Q13B’s bath complexes…
- Here’s how I plan to crack the Voynich Manuscript (2021)…
June 2021
- What mistakes did Scribe 2 never make?
- Somerton Man: It’s Edge of the Seat Time…
- Henry Debosnys: Crowdfunding DNA Extraction…?
May 2021
- Might Paul Olum have been the person behind Richard Feynman’s Ciphers?
- Somerton Man: “Three Main Theories”…
- Review: Benedek Lang’s “The Rohonc Code”…
- Somerton Man Exhumation: And So It Begins…
- Convicts escaped from Nouvelle-Caledonie…
- Final notes on Jean Keff and Pierre Keff…
- Sadly, Henry Debosnys was not Pierre Keff… :-(
- Jean Keff escaped Le Bagne de Toulon! (…sort of)
- Was Henry Debosnys in fact Pierre Keff?
- d’Agapeyeff Cipher: how about a sorted frequency distribution search of Project Gutenberg?
April 2021
- Sektu and Henry Debosnys
- If not off-white, then what?
- “The Codebreaker” on PBS America, Wed 28 Apr 2021…
- Somerton Man exhumation approved, late middlegame approaches…
- Introducing the “suffixity” metric (perhaps)…
- Walthamstow’s Second Biggest Mystery
- Direct From The Source
March 2021
February 2021
- Can you decode Robert Walker’s code names?
- The Old Canton Cafe Baccarat School Timeline…
- Notes on Balutz…
- Why would a Lithuanian be called “Joseph Kean”?
- The Somerton Man, Four Straight As, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the 1930 US Census…?
January 2021
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December 2020
- After Z340, which cipher mysteries could get cracked in 2021?
- “A Massive Hunt” – Clarkson, Hammond & May take on a Cipher Mystery…
- Zodiac Z340 is CRACKED!
November 2020
- The Glut of Somerton Men…
- The Nageon de l’Estangs in 1760…
- Hidden treasure, Pointe de Vacoas, and 300 dead dodos…
- “Carte générale de l’Isle de France avec le détail de son Terrier et les noms des habitans par numéros”…
October 2020
- Domingo Delgado and the “Amelia Manuscript”…
- Why a Hoopoe’s Heart?
- Typex seen through code-breaking eyes…
- Looking for a Baltimore / Washington crypto collaborator…
September 2020
- Brief notes on Voynichese benched gallows…
- Comparing Voynichese word-initial l- with ol- and al-…
- Can You Name This Man?
- On single-leg gallows and the benefits of having more questions than answers…
August 2020
- Introducing Virtual Typex…
- The Mystery of the Single Leg Gallows…
- Might “Handel” be the Somerton Man Messiah?
June 2020
May 2020
April 2020
- Ernst Zinner’s history of nocturlabes…
- The ‘theorice novelle’, and how the pieces fit together…
- Astronomical volvelles, Gianfranco Crupi, and a request for help…
- The Theorica Planetarum hypothesis and research landscape…
March 2020
- Might Gotha Chart. A 472 be connected to Voynich Q9?
- Hans Wegener’s drive-by guide to UB Heidelberg’s 15th Century German illustrated manuscripts…
- Eichstätt, Bellifortis, scribes…
- Thomasin von Zerklaere’s “Italian Guest” (Welscher Gast)…
- Adelaide car thieves (1951)…
- Chewing gum, foil wrappers, and car thieves…
February 2020
- The “St George’s Convent Library” Voynich theory…
- “Pax Nax Vax” revisited…
- Nicole Oresme’s “Treatise of the Sphere”, revisited…
- Cameron La Follette, beeswax, the Neahkahnie Treasure, and the “Santo Cristo de Burgos”…
- Alice Kober vs Linear B, The World vs Voynichese…
January 2020
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December 2019
November 2019
- Voynich Manuscript: Letter Contact Tables
- Dorabella Cipher: timeline, texts, and Keith Massey…
- Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess, Princess Ivanovich…
- Chloe Delancy (Thomas Beale Jr’s Mother)…
- More about Triantafillos Balutis…
- A helpful response from PRO Victoria…
October 2019
- The “Previously Fined Nitkeeper” Hypothesis…
- Finally, John Joseph Keane…
- The Somerton Man: the search for John Joseph Keane continues…
- Veronica Mary Keane of 63 Jetty Road, Glenelg…
- Ethel Voynich talk in Dublin…
- Jack Gordon Keane of Broken Hill…?
September 2019
August 2019
- Revealed! The Voynich Manuscript and The Secret Order of the Seagull…
- Idea: publishing Voynich research via preprint servers…
- Two pages wanted from a Frank Fürbeth book… :-/
July 2019
- Voynich Aries and Greedy Goats…
- Rodrigues Pirate Treasure: Has The Lady Vanished?
- Pirate treasure found in Rodrigues, administration at war with itself…
- John Stanislaus Keane, murdered Sydney bookmaker…
June 2019
- Strapper Jimmy Kean, Royal Gem, and a love story…
- What if Sergio Toresella was (sort of) right all along?
- Links to scans of Alchemical Herbals…
- The Secret History of the Catoblepas (Part 1)…
- Jockey J. J. Kean, update…
May 2019
- Hollow River Cipher update: Île Saint-Jean, Naufrage, League…
- Gerard Cheshire, Star Wars, space teapots, and Royal Roads…
- Plougastel Inscription Photographs!
- The mysterious stone near Plougastel-Daoulas, continued…
- The Perplexing Mystery of the Voynichese ‘Languages’…
- “Le mystère Champollion à Plougastel-Daoulas”…
April 2019
March 2019
- Might the Hollow River Cipher be a hoax?
- J. J. Kean, jockey…
- John Joseph Keane, bookmaker’s clerk…
- Finally, the rest of the Kean family…
- Thomas Joseph Kean, born 10th April 1898 in Northgate, Victoria…
February 2019
- Two new Kean(e)s: Thomas John and John Joseph…
- The Voynich Manuscript: trying to decipher EVA ‘ch’…
- The Somerton Man Baccarat school nitkeeper research thread…
- Abraham Colorni’s Cryptography…
- The Palermo Cipher
January 2019
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December 2018
- The Voynich Manuscript’s problematic pipes…
- Magnus Pharao Hansen vs the Nahuatl Hydra…
- The Improbable World of Beale Cipher B1…
- “Voynich Botanica 1-66”, mysterious beauty products…
- More notes on the Beale Ciphers…
- Seventy years of the Somerton Man mystery…
November 2018
- A Voynich Manuscript pincer attack on Cancer…
- The linguistic diffusion of Cisiojanus mnemonics…
- Diebold Lauber’s workshop and the knotty problem of necklines…
- Usage patterns in the Beale Ciphers…
- Is it time for the Secret History of the First World War to emerge?
- “Mario translates the Voynich Manuscript”
- Refining Beale Cipher B1’s cipher table…
- Seventeen syllables, right?
October 2018
- “Folklore: Prince Edward Island” by Sterling Ramsay…
- Gustina Scaglia, the Machine Complex Authors, and weak vs strong research questions…
- Scorpion S1, a different view…
- At last (Take #2): “Ronald Francis” was chemist John Freeman of 24A Jetty Road, Glenelg…
- Hendrickson REWIIIIIIIIIIIIND….?!?!?
- Trying to identify the mysterious letter ‘^’ on the top line of Voynich f116v…
September 2018
- At last: “Ronald Francis” was Dr Douglas Buxton Hendrickson of 13 Pier St, Glenelg..
- Introduction to Beale Cipher B2…
- The Usenet “Markovian Parallax Denigrate” mystery…
- Netta Fornario’s missing papers…
- Voynich Zodiac Gemini and the workshop of Diebold Lauber…
- Searching for L’Aigle…
August 2018
- Notes on Battista Piasio [Part 1] – Nicolaus Lucarus’ funeral oration…
- Interstate Men Charged
- In search of James Crowshay…
- Sherlock Holmes, the Somerton Man, and the Case of the Missing Socks…
July 2018
- Nick Pelling talk **CANCELLED** on “The Ten Times Manifesto”, Google Campus London, 6pm, 10th August 2018…
- 1738 London newspapers…
- Tracing The Eagle and J Crowshay…
- The Hollow River Treasure…?
- Cracking the Hollow River Cipher…
- David F. Christensen and Kennedy’s assassination…
- What’s the best non-theory Zodiac Killer book?
- Review of Jess Lourey’s “Salem’s Cipher”…
June 2018
- A quicky word puzzle for you…
- Who is your Voynich best girl / nymph?
- The Franklin Sugar Refinery…
- How to find the Cherry Garden cottage…
- John Fanning Watson on Philadelphia’s pirate treasure…
- A saunter through Philadelphia’s Society Hill to Cherry Garden…
- Mental Floss does the Beale Ciphers…
- Király and Tokai’s Rohonc Codex decryption…
May 2018
- The Society Hill Treasure Map…
- Coming soon, a paper where the Voynich Manuscript meets Cushing’s Syndrome…
- Tom Juzek on the Zodiac Killer Ciphers…
April 2018
- Cipher Mysteries comments now online, plus Pameo Pose Voynich apparel…
- The Voynich Manuscript Explained, by Doggos…
March 2018
- The “Liber de Angelis” and the Voynich Manuscript’s planet sequence…
- Wagamama “Edamam(e) = mc2” cipher competition deadline fast approaching…
- Wagamama’s “impossible” 7-day cipher…
- Perhaps the worst Rohonc Codex book ever written…
- “Cold Case Files 1: The Zodiac” (2003)…
- A possible internal Voynichese text match…?
February 2018
- More Voynich theories to throw onto the (already blazing) hearth…
- “An Anatomy of Failure: Analysis Attempts to Decode the Voynich Manuscript”…
- Cipher Mysteries and Rome…
- On postmodernism, History, Truth, and the X-Files…
- Yet another Voynich round-up post…
- An open letter to pretty much every linguistic Voynich theorist ever
January 2018
- Have Kondrak and Hauer finally revealed the Voynich Manuscript’s secrets? (Errrm… no, not really, sorry. But…)
- Might Voynich f57v depict a nocturnal?
- Cracking the Paul Rubin Cipher…
- Paul Rubin’s cipher, revisited…
- Disney Star Wars, and Shrek’s MI5 Adventure…
- Cipher Mysteries Christmas Panto: “Jack and the Cursed Manuscript” (Part One)…
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December 2017
- La Buse film being shot…
- 2017: cipher mystery books I’ve bought this year…
- The Zodiac Killer’s Z13 cipher meets his Z340 cipher…
- “The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer” season finale, and Craig Bauer’s Z340 cipher “crack”…
- Antilanguages, and Calabar lesbian cryptic languages…
- Professor Stephen Bax (1960 – 2017)
- The Zodiac Killer, the Albany Cipher, and David Oranchak’s “Connie Henly”…
- Jim Handlin and the Voynich Manuscript…
- The Donna Lass cipher, solved… but no happy ending, sorry.
November 2017
- Voynich metatheories, Rich SantaColoma, and Document X…
- “Drawing Close – Voynich Series”, by Sabina Sallis…
- A second “The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer” episode…
- Grudge match: Jess Feldman’s “Call It A Premonition” vs supercomputer Zodiac Killer poetry…
- A Voynich Morning
- Gerry Feltus’s “The Unknown Man”, now available as an ebook…
- Karga Seven’s “The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer” commences…
- Request for help: an illustrated copy of Sacrobosco’s De Sphaera online?
- Enigma parade float from Poznan…
- Gerard Cheshire, Vulgar Latin, and the siren call of the polyglot…
- Some pirate rum for your cup of tea, sir?
- Of Dalek ex-termination letters and steganography…
- A linguist, an epigrapher, and an ethnologist are in a bar…
October 2017
- Nicole Oresme’s reception outside France…
- Nicole Oresme’s “Treatise of the Sphere”…
- Glenelg and Somerton circa 1948…
- On Nicole Oresme, Aristotle, and footprints…
- Article request: “Marie de Berry et les livres”…?
- The rather strange-looking BAV MSS P.I.O.6…
- BNF Français 565, Nicole Oresme, and Jean de Berry’s library…
- Early look at Siloe’s Voynich facsimile [VIDEO]…
- The Pathology of Voynich Priority…
September 2017
- A cabinet book to die for (literally)…
- Zodiac Killer Z340, transposition patterns, and homophone cycles…
- Reading (and translating!) RSS feeds…
- Zodiac Killer Z340, letter skips, and a three-way line dance?
- Vox piece on the Voynich Manuscript…
- “Somerton Beach” by Jerkcurb…
- Zodiac Killer alive and graffiti-ing in Cyprus…?
- The death of Wikipedia, but the birth of what?
- Possible Voynich f17r handwriting match…
- What’s wrong with today’s Voynich theory?
- Voynich labelese…
August 2017
- Voynich f57v
- What’s the point of blogging?
- Domenico De’ Domenichi (1416-1478) and Vat. Gr. 1291…
- Searching and researching…
- A Cisiojanus July Voynich crib?
- Volkskalender manuscripts and Cisiojanus feast-day mnemonics…
- Brévart’s “Volkskalender B” family of manuscripts…
- A solved pigeon cipher mystery (from 1952)…
July 2017
- The Secret History of Typex QQQQQ…
- Review of “The Secret Code-Breakers of Central Bureau”…
- Cod. Sang. 760 and the “Iatromathematisches Hausbuch” Voynich hypothesis…
- The Zodiac Bath Hypothesis…
- Update on Captain Nave…
- Review of Jorge Luis Borges’ (1962) “Labyrinths”…
- Eric Nave and the Rubaiyat…
- Philip Wylie’s “A.D. 2017″…
- “Was the author of the Voynich Manuscript an Italian Jew?”
- New paper on fifteenth century cryptography
- The two IKLP codes…
June 2017
- Thoughts on Nick’s Challenge Cipher #1…
- New: seven constrained homophonic challenge ciphers for you to solve…
- Cracking the Scorpion S1 cipher…?
- The Rubaiyat Car Theory…
- Daphne Page vs Prosper Thomson…
- Review of “Anson’s Gold” by George Edmunds…
- Voynichese Task #2: parsing Voynichese into tokens…
May 2017
- 19th Century Baltimore orphanages: a bibliography…
- The Silk Dress Cipher and the Orphan Train…?
- “Awakening The Zodiac”…
- The Silk Dress Cipher….
- Voynichese Task #1: moving towards “EVA 2.0″…
- What is the point of EVA? Everyone seems to have forgotten… :-(
- A “staging point” model for solving the Voynich Manuscript…
April 2017
- The Feynman Challenge Ciphers and Geoffrey Chaucer…
- “The Curse of the Voynich”, now *not* on sale…
- Announcing: “The Journal of Uncertain History”…
- Voynich nine-rosette page: (Part 1) Milan and swallow-tail merlons
- Alexandra Marraccini, and the problem of textlessness…
- Of Caractors, vertical columns, and Jaredite submarines…
- “Cipher myth-making” and “cipher backfilling”…
March 2017
- The Spitalfields Mathematical Society, Augustus de Morgan, and an Astronomical Drinking Song…
- The Oak Island Ciphers (Part 1): the 80-foot rock cipher…
- Might the Z408 Zodiac Killer cipher be a clue to a book?
- Geoff Bath’s “Maps, Mystery and Interpretation” and Oak Island…
- A new clue for the d’Agapeyeff Challenge Cipher…?
- Reconstructing Lee Erwin Shackelford’s family tree…
- A Voynich presentation at Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2017…
February 2017
- Somerton Man – Two New Rubaiyat Scans…
- Voynich entropy, transcription, and parsing…
- Inside the Zodiac Killer’s (cryptographic) head…
- Voynich, The Musical…
- The problem with EVA ‘s’…
- Hi There!
- Who owns the Voynich Manuscript?
January 2017
- Voynich metatheories, theories, and pseudoscience…
- The Nageon Family (Part 5): A Missing André Nageon de l’Estang?
- Bernardin Nageon letter BN3, Napoleon, and haches d’abordage d’honneur…
- Review of “Tales From The Black Chamber: A Supernatural Thriller” by Bill Walsh…
- WWE Ultimate Smackdown: Donald Trump vs The Voynich Manuscript…?
- How about a British Academy Voynich Manuscript Conference?
- Where in Jetty Road was the Rubaiyat car parked?
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December 2016
- The second Voynich owner’s mark…?
- Was it Dr Malcolm Glen Sarre who found the Rubaiyat?
- 100 Voynich problems that nobody has (yet) solved…
- Cicco Simonetta’s Treatise on Decipherment, in modern English…
- Some Voynich reviews, summarized for you…
- Was the Dying Captain François-Thomas Le Même?
November 2016
- The Voynich Manuscript and the Heroic Outsider…
- Multispectral images of Voynich f116v…
- Jean-Marthe-Adrien Lhermitte and La Preneuse…
- Joachim Vieillard and La Confiance…
- Yale’s Voynich Manuscript photo-facsimile has just arrived here…
- Was Joachim Vieillard the Missing Corsair?
- The Musée de la Légion d’honneur comes up trumps!
October 2016
- Voynich microbroadcast on French radio with Antoine Casanova…
- At long last, a review of some Voynich erotica…
- (Just before-)Halloween Voynich pub meet 2016…
- Yale University Press / Voynich talk this Wednesday (26th October 2016)…
- A new Moustier theory from Philippe Connart…
- Kickstarter project now kickstopped… :-(
- The Légion d’Honneur emerges from the historical fog…
- Clarence Seckold – “Australia-Wide Hunt For Insane Killer” (Truth)
- The Missing Corsair, close to the edge of knowledge…
- Who was recommended for the Légion d’Honneur on 20th December 1810?
- Was the Missing Corsair in the Legion d’Honneur?
- Voynichese letters vs glyph-groups….
- La Bourdonnais’ Ile de France fleet…
- The Nageon Family (Part 4): André Ambroise Nageon de l’Estang
- The Nageon Family (Part 3): Jean-Marie-Justin Nageon de l’Estang…?
- The Nageon Family (Part 2): André Bernardin Nageon de l’Estang
- The Nageon Family (Part 1): André Nageon de l’Estang
September 2016
- Pirate Treasure crowdfunding update: the press release!
- Kickstarter video, now with French subtitles…
- Jean Giraud, Lucien Giraud, and Bernardin Nageon de l’Estang…
- Interlinear transcription of the Nageon de l’Estang papers…
- A 28-day Kickstarter Roadmap…
- “Gold Beyond Your Dreams” documentary, now crowdfunding live on Kickstarter…
- Voynich / New Spain / Kabbalah lecture at Purdue University…
- Gordon Rugg, “The Man Who Cracked The Mystery Of The Voynich Manuscript”, cracks it once again (NOT)…
- Voynich theories, 2016 stylee…
August 2016
- Avengers / Voynich facepalm mash-up…?
- Early Maps of Mauritius…
- Crowdfunding documentary update…
- Thoughts on Voynich Manuscript handwriting…
- The Voynich Manuscript facsimile news story…
- Possible Voynich Manuscript handwriting match: Basel. Univ. Bibl. A X 132
- On ciphers, history, and documentaries…
- de Sainson’s drawings of Mauritius…
- Mauritius, treasure,… and lava tubes?
- Crowdfunding a “Le Butin” documentary…?
- Philippe Chevreau de Montléhu…
July 2016
- Decrypting the Voynich Pisces page (f70v2)…?
- Loys Masson and Bernardin Nageon de l’Estang’s letters…
- Charles Mikkelsen, died 10th June 1940…
- The M/V Tirranna’s final days…
- Charles Mikkelsen Timeline…
- Notes on Charles Mikkelsen…
- Might Malroux be the missing corsair’s dying captain?
- The USNS Marine Phoenix…
- Fifteenth century cryptography…
- Wahine passenger lists, 1947-1948
- Glenlivet Cipher…?!?
- Elgar micro-cryptogram sold at Sotheby’s…
June 2016
- Teaching Adelaide migrants to speak English…
- Crossing the Tasman Sea, 1945 to 1948…
- The search for the Somerton Man’s Rubaiyat…
- From Giovanni da Fontana to Richard Windley…
- Humour at its gravest… .
- “The Great Lost Treasure”…
- The “Indus” and the “Indostan”…
- Best Practice For Bloggers?
May 2016
- A change of focus for Cipher Mysteries…
- Cipher Mysteries is once again live…
- A song about Harold T Wilkins…
April 2016
- BN3, Hamelin, and La Venus…
- The missing corsair and the Apollon…
- Ricky McCormick’s notes – for 6th graders :-)
- Le Butin and the Missing Pirate…
- The Drones’ “Taman Shud” lyrics and the Somerton Man…
March 2016
- Cryptic Masonic gravestones…
- History, “Internet History”, and the importance of disagreement…
- Margaret Alison Bean / Alison Verco
- Glen Claston on Quire 13 (from 2009)…
- Decrypting the ‘Caractors’…
- La Buse: three treasure hunters arrested…
- Paris 7272 Cipher cracked (mostly) by Marco Ponzi…
- Internet troll policy…
February 2016
- A big thank you to the London Fortean Society…
- London Fortean Society Voynich talk 25th February 2016
- Introducing the Paris 7272 Cipher…
- The Voynich zodiac section – a block paradigm match…?
- Johannes van Heeck’s cipher manuscript…
- A simple cipher for you to decrypt…
January 2016
- The very social Somerton Man’s suitcase…
- The Italian colour recipes research tree…
- Quire 20 and Johannes Alcherius: this is how the book is found…
- The book hidden inside Voynich Quire 20…
- Voynich statistics, and why Voynichese is not flat…
- Thomas Leonard Keane and the Somerton Man…
- Nick Pelling Fortean Voynich talk in London, 25th February 2016
- Franciscan monasteries in Switzerland 1450-1610…
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December 2015
- The Voynich battle is only just beginning…
- Tracking down the Klondyke Company…
- I’m going to try to separate La Buse posts from Le Butin posts…
- The Book of Soyga, now translated and online…
- Two new Voynich Limericks
- Didac Sánchez and the WW2 Cipher Pigeon…
- Elonka and the Beale Ciphers…
- The Voynich Manuscript and the poverty of disproof…
- Happy Voynich Christmas from Cipher Mysteries!
- WWI battery cipher…
November 2015
- Announcing: “The Secret History of the Rosicrucians”…
- Thank you, a million times over…
- The person not on the S.S.Cimbria…
- Henry Debosnys and the Cimbria…?
- 17th Century Cipher Mystery Meme…
- Thoughts on the Debosnys Ciphers…
October 2015
September 2015
- Evidence for Bernardin Nageon de l’Estang…?
- “The Cipher In Room 214″…
- “Le Flibustier Mysterieux” microproject…?
- Announcing: The Cipher Foundation.
- Who will be the Champollion of Voynichese?
- Barry Traish’s backronymic poem…
- La Buse and Edgar Allan Poe…
- Tom Keane of Sinn Fein?
August 2015
- The Somerton Man, Virginia and North Carolina…?
- “My life is all but over…”
- Freemasonry and three snakes…?
July 2015
June 2015
- Ina Harvey, the case, and the needle…
- The Voynich Manuscript’s Three Crowns…
- Westminster Under School Crypto Challenge
- Voynich Talk in York with Rene Zandbergen & Bill Sherman
- Declassified NSA documents…
- Unreadable books become hip literary phenomenon… (really?)
- The Z340 Cipher, a dissenting opinion…
- Some Scorpion S5 probability calculations…
- The curious case of Derek Abbott and the Somerton Man…
- World War II Crypto Hackers presentation…
- Scorpion Cipher S5 grid logic…
May 2015
- The case of Robert Morris’s “Written Mnemonics”…
- Elgar’s hysterious other ciphertext?
- Beale Cipher, gold and silver…
- Delancey vs Beale
- Thomas Beale Junior – possible research resources…?
- The two Thomas Beales…
- Might this be how to solve Scorpion Cipher S5…?
- Tamam Shuda Cuda Wuda…
- Radiocarbon dating and the Voynich Manuscript…
- Logbooks for the S.S. Era, the other Risdon ship…
- Vrillon and Max…
- Captain William Kidd’s “Adventure Galley” found off Madagascar?
- Vinland Map update…
April 2015
- Tim Mervyn’s K:D:P Voynich theory
- Rohonc Codex update
- “War of the Birds” (2005)…
- 2015 Virtual Somerton Man Beach Sculpture Contest…
- NURP 40 TW 194’s pigeon club identified…?
March 2015
- “Raiders of the Lost Past” tackles the Beale Papers…
- “La Buse”‘s cryptogram and French love magic…?
- Yannick Benaben and the fake “La Buse” cryptogram…?
- An Enigma wristwatch…?!
- Conspiracy comedy podcast takes on the Somerton Man…
- The Rubaiyat note and Gordon Cramer’s “Q”…
- Review: “The Voynich Deception” by Michael Lancashire…
- Those Chinese Gold Bar Ciphers, once again…
- That Chinese Gold Bar Cipher thing…
- “Pigeons in World War II” by W. H. Osman…
- “Expedition Unknown” does the Beale Papers (sort of)…
- The Tamam Shud fragment was a proof of identity…
February 2015
- Richard Frederick Arthur Pruszinski’s short Broken Hill life…
- The Secret History of Paul Rubin, perhaps…?
- The Cryptography of Jules Verne…
- The cipher on Paul Emanuel Rubin’s abdomen…
- The oddly inferential Somerton Man…
- The Winter Ballroom
- Ultimate Cipher Personality Quiz…
- The Hillman Minx that was or wasn’t…
January 2015
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December 2014
- Voynich block #3 – the ‘magic circles’
- Voynich block #2: the recipe section…?
- Risdon round-up…
- How the Risdon roaster might explain everything…
- Introducing the Block Paradigm for Voynich Manuscript research (Part 1)…
- Risdon, zinc, and known unknowns…
November 2014
- A brief history of the Incharran…
- Has anyone got access to the Log of Logs?
- Good lead vs bad lead…
- Following the Australian lead archive trail…
- Nigel West, Arnold Deutsch, and the SS Donbass…
- Lead in the Somerton Man’s hair…
- Port Pirie lead shipments and the Somerton Man…
- “Such Sphinxes As These…”
October 2014
- A white tie? That could get you killed…
- Blitz Cipher, partial transcription…
- The Beale Ciphers, a Third Way…
- Voynich international art exhibition roaming across Europe in 2014-2015…
- The dauntless SS Donbass…
- The mystery of the Anthon Transcript…
- Five more pages of the Blitz Ciphers released…
- Your very own Cryptex (or perhaps not).
- Communists on the workfloor and the missing Mr Keane…
- Danish brewery releases beer inspired by the Somerton Man!
September 2014
- Voynich pub meet reminder…
- Might Arnold Deutsch be the Somerton Man?
- This is how we find out who the Somerton Man man was (fingers crossed)…
- Somerton Man and WWII Lend-Lease…?
- Voynich pub meet, 28th September 2014…
- The Somerton Man’s grave…
- Mini-update on Feynman Cipher #2 (F2)…
- The Voynich Manuscript at the Folger Shakespeare Library!
August 2014
- And the Somerton Man’s surname was…
- Tamam Shud loose end roundup…
- A quick look at the Feynman Ciphers…
- The oddly clean-shaven Somerton Man…
- Mrs John Morison, the Mission to Seamen’s indefatigable hospital visitor…
- The Somerton Man “missing list”, and the simplest explanation of all…
- The Rubaiyat ciphertext photograph (again)…
- The Voynich’s infuriating liminality…
- Disproving and/or testing Voynich theories…
July 2014
- A History of SAPOL Photography to 1950…
- Obituary: Timothy Rayhel (Glen Claston) 1957-2014
- Somerton Man Part Two: Police Photography revisited…
- Manu wants his La Buse theory disproved…
- Gordon Cramer and the Somerton Man’s Rubaiyat…
- Ohio Cipher revisited (again)…
- “The Devil in the Details” Voynich short story…
- Andy Warner on the Voynich Manuscript!
June 2014
- Was the Somerton Man an Odd Fellow?
- Action Line Cryptogram, now comprehensively cracked!
- Ralph Simpson’s splendid Google Tech Talk on the History of Enigma Machines…
- Upcoming Paula Zyats Voynich talk in Philadelphia…
- Emmanuel Mezino’s “La Buse” cipher treasure book…
- Browne’s Master Key, (mostly) deciphered…
- The Voynich Manuscript for Dummies…?
- Somerton Man’s clothes – Thomas Kean, deceased?
- Impromptu Voynich pub meet, Friday 13th June 2014…
- Partial decryption of the Action Line Cryptogram…
- “A Highly Unlikely Scenario”, reviewed…
- Analysis of Scorpion Cipher S5…
May 2014
- Claudette Cohen and a Voynich Finno-Baltic Birth Registry…?
- Juan Roget, José Maria Simón de Guilleuma, and Barcelona’s notarial archives…
- Cracking the Scorpion Ciphers…
- Getting to the story behind the Somerton Man…
- Travel Channel
- Homer’s Odyssey shorthand marginalia identified…
- Marius-Adrian Oancea and the Rohonc Codex
- New Voynich-Nibiru-dinosaur-Time theory…
April 2014
- $1000 historical shorthand marginalia challenge…
- Delia Huegel and the Rohonc Codex
- Spring 2014 Voynich Miscellany…
- “Overcompensating” web comic does the Voynich Manuscript…
- Weldon Ciphers resolved (it would seem)…
- More Weldon cipher stuff…
March 2014
- Weldon Ciphers transcribed…
- The Weldon Ciphers
- Coast to Coast AM does the Voynich Manuscript…
- Review: Leena Krohn’s “Datura”…
- Double pirate book recommendation…
- Jutta Kellner proposes Voynich theory, asks for money…
- Encyclopedia Girl. (Chapter 2)
- The Somerton Man – Australian radio documentary by Ruth Balint…
- Encyclopedia Girl. (Chapter 1)
- Dembski’s Archer and the Voynich Manuscript…
February 2014
- Doctor Blake meets the Somerton Man (sort of)…
- Some silly cryptograms for you to enjoy…
- Stephen Bax and the Voynich Manuscript…
- The Castel del Monte Voynich theory, reviewed…
- Mark Perakh and the Voynich Manuscript
- Is Voynichese an abjad?
- Willen Styn, the end of a thread…
- Alas, Willen Styn is not the Somerton Man… :-(
January 2014
- Review of Dominic Selwood’s “The Sword of Moses”…
- Swedish Zodiac Killer Z32 theory…
- Why I think the d’Agapeyeff cipher is diagonally transposed…
- d’Agapeyeff Digraph Frequency Table…
- Somerton Man thread round-up…
- Some nice WW2 pigeon pictures…
- A Brand New New World / Nahuatl Voynich Manuscript Theory…
- Errors in the Voynich Manuscript…
- Barack Obama and the Somerton Man…
- New Somerton Man page…
- Quick admin post – 600K, Curse, chess, pub, etc
- The Somerton Man’s cipher, revisited…
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December 2013
- The secret history of Jestyn, and Willen Styn…?
- The d’Agapeyeff Cipher once again…
- Somerton Man – video update, and political football latest…
- A Sirius Voynich Theory, I’ll be Dogon!
- The Voynich Manuscript – the Internet speaks its mind!
- Review of Kerry Greenwood’s “Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man Mystery”…
- The Somerton Man / Jim Beaumont connection…
- Voynich / Castel del Monte book launch in Brussels…
- The Blitz Ciphers and null detection algorithms…
November 2013
- List of Voynich facsimile / reproduction books…
- Voynich Manuscript and the Castel del Monte…
- 60 Minutes and the Known Somerton Man…
- “60 Minutes” about to do the Somerton Man…
- Beale Ciphers / Gillogly Strings revisited…
- Olaus Magnus’ 1539 Carta Marina (interactive version)…
- Beale Ciphers? Apparently there’s an app for that…
- Somerton Man – the last 24 hours…
- The Box of Crazy.
- Proposal: “Open Source Autopsy on the Unknown Man”…
- Gordon Cramer on the Somerton Man…
- The Devil’s Handwriting, revisited…
- Keith Mangnoson’s first near-death experience…
October 2013
- Keith Mangnoson / “Carl Thompsen” continued…
- Codex Seraphinianus Redux, 2013 stylee…
- “Thompson Twins” Tamam Shud hypothesis…
- “The Unexplained Files” does the Voynich Manuscript…
- Thomas Lawrence Keane, and a plague of Tamam Trolls…
- Allan Gillespie’s Dorabella Cipher decryption…
- Nautilus Dorabella Cipher article…
- “What Don’t You Understand” webcomic, now with added Voynich…
- Tamam Shud, curiouser and curiouser…
- The hunt for Thomas Lawrence Keane, continued…
- XKCD on the (non-)flat earth…
- The Dorabella cipher and Elgar’s *other* little ciphertexts…
- Revised Somerton Man id claim – Thomas Lawrence Keane…
- “Prime” / Jack Sigler / Voynich Manuscript novel…
- New Somerton Man identification claim – Thomas Torance Keane…?
September 2013
- Kidd, Poe, ‘Imogine’, and Charles Garrett…
- Review of “An Anthology of Asemic Writing”…
- Roald Dahl Day 2013 – a celebratory poem! :-)
- “Does X Mark The Spot?” – Pirate History Talk 15th September 2013
August 2013
- Cipher Mysteries comment policy change…
- Pirate Treasure Maps – Does X Mark The Spot?
- Voynich “Glossodahlia” book…
- Dorabella Cipher Ultimate SmackDown – Eric Sams vs Beatrice Gwynn?
July 2013
- Sandra And Woo do the Voynich… The Book of Woo!
- Jabron Cryptogram update…
- Voynich Manuscript: an Andean Sky God Cathar theory?
- La Buse French documentary…
- A Visual Map of Voynich Evidence, Theories & People…
- Flirtation codes!
- Vick Industries cipher mystery…
- A Tale of Two Voynich Articles…
- Paul de Saint-Hilaire’s notes on Moustier Church…
- Ohio Cipher – the original incident?
- Ohio Cipher update…
- Ohio’s very own cipher mystery…
June 2013
- Montemurro Voynich paper and the “genuine message”…
- Naughty High School Chemistry cipher…
- The Svelte Voynich…
- David Kahn at the Athenaeum…
May 2013
- Evidence of bifolio reordering in the Voynich Manuscript…
- British ships in the Indian Ocean, 1795-1796…
- So, Le Butin probably got the pirate cipher from…
- Long-overdue mini-rant…
- La Buse’s / Le Butin’s Pirate Cipher (part 4)…
- La Buse’s / Le Butin’s Pirate Cipher (Part 3)…
April 2013
- Captain Prescott Currier and Voynich research…
- Cipher pigeon message – “X02” decoded!
- Luigi Serafini’s alchemical crockery…
- “The Voynich Experiment” online game…
- Snoopy’s Ultimate Voynich Novel…
- New Voynich research lead #1…
- The Secret History of… Bovril?!?
- La Buse’s / Le Butin’s Pirate Cipher (Part 2)…
- Ulrik Heltoft’s “The Voynich Botanical Studies”…
- Moustier cryptogram update…
- Gordon Rugg, the Search Visualizer, and the Voynich…
- La Buse’s / Le Butin’s Pirate Cipher (Part 1)…
- L’Île des Veilleurs and the Jabron Cryptogram…
- Rudy Cambier and the Moustier cryptograms…
- Enrique Joven’s Voynich prequel novel…
- The Moustier Cryptograms…
- Crossword suicide, latest update…
March 2013
- The Unabomber cipher journal…
- The Devil’s Handwriting…
- Cipher Pigeon, Typex, Big Bang, GCHQ, and High Grade Ciphers…
- Sorry, The Unknown Man is (very probably) not H. C. Reynolds…
- Ricky McCormick’s mysterious notes…
- British Army Cipher Pigeon update…
- Knight & Reddy on the Voynich, & the limits of statistical analysis…
- Dan Brown’s “Inferno” and the Voynich Manuscript…
- Brazilian academics: Voynichese “incompatible with random texts”…
- Voynich pub meet (gentle reminder)…
- Moshe Rubin’s Cryptologia Chaocipher article, now viewable online…
February 2013
- WW2 Cipher Pigeon “W Stout” signature update…
- Dorabella Cipher, first two words decrypted (perhaps)…
- 1926 Budapest crossword suicide, revealed! (Mostly)…
- The WW2 Pigeon Cipher… probably isn’t in Slidex. :-(
- Another day, another WordPress hacker *sigh*… :-(
- Voynich pub meet with Klaus Schmeh on 7th March 2013…
- Historical Cryptography Conference in Gotha…
- The Gentlemen’s Cipher, solved! :-)
January 2013
- Mona Lisa, multimedia-style… ;-)
- Helen Fouché Gaines’ challenge cipher…
- Slovakian Voynich facsimile edition (2012)…
- The Massey twins’ Phaistos Disk decryption claim…
- Some of my pigeon questions answered…
- At last, some genuinely useful Voynich merchandise hits eBay…
- Why so many open pigeony questions?
- Cipher talk for kids in Kingston (3rd February 2013)…
- Pigeon bigram / Slidex update…
- The Voynich Manuscript, Voynich theorists, and professional historians…
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December 2012
- What lurks in the basement?
- Bigrams in the pigeon cipher…
- The unfortunate life of the Army’s Cysquare cipher…
- On irony, question marks, brackets, and the Voynich Manuscript…
- “Small explosion in Unicode factory, nobody hurt”… :-)
- “The Curse of the Voynich”, now back on sale…
- Dead WW2 pigeon cipher cracked with WW1 codebook (says the Mail)… errr, really?
- 2012 Advent Calendar Day #10: Book theft with climbing rope…
- “The Roger Williams Code” cracked (the old-fashioned way)…
- At last, the secret history of that dead cipher pigeon…
- 2012 Advent Calendar Day #7: Voynich naiad nymph necklace…
- 2012 Advent Calendar Day #6: “The Encrypted” reveals the history of everything…
- 2012 Advent Calendar Day #5: Review of Nick Redfern’s “The Pyramids and The Pentagon”…
- 2012 Advent Calendar Day #4: Review of “The Book of Blood & Shadow”…
- 2012 Advent Calendar Day #3: “The Boxall Code”…
- 2012 Advent Calendar, Day #2: A Nice Saturday Morning In Kew…
- 2012 Cipher Mysteries Advent Calendar, Day #1 – Kerry Greenwood’s new Tamam Shud book…
November 2012
- That dead cipher pigeon – the facts…
- The secret history of the hyphen…
- Tunbridge Wells, and a pigeony bombshell…?
- Dead WW2 cipher pigeon timeline…
- Dead WW2 pigeon – a ring of truth?
- Wired article on the Copiale Cipher…
- Dead pigeon sparks WW2 cipher mystery…
October 2012
September 2012
- Hypatia Pickens’ Voynich-inspired 3d art…
- Review: “Rebel Gold” By Warren Getler & Bob Brewer…
- Review: The Voynich Cypher
- The unknown man (who might be The Unknown Man) remains unknown…
August 2012
July 2012
- Voynich Miscellany 2012, part 2…
- Announcing Curse 2 – the sequel!
- Cat Darensbourg’s Beale Cipher 1 decryption…
- Voynich, summer 2012 miscellany…
- The Unknown Man, update…
June 2012
- Lecture notes on history of cipher & shorthand…
- Girolamo Sirtori cipher mystery…
- Update on Cipher Mysteries…
- Cipher Mysteries online forum…
May 2012
- French researchers decode the Voynich Manuscript (errrrm… or maybe not)
- Here’s the NatGeo documentary in English…
- Voynich radiocarbon dating, part one…
- Here’s the NatGeo documentary in French…
- Right now, I have a Voynich Centenary Conference hangover…
- National Geographic – Ancient X Files – Voynich Manuscript documentary!
- Updated Voynich slides + Nat Geo announcement…
- H. C. Reynolds – Chester Hill archive beckons!
April 2012
- So, here’s where the RMS Niagara log book is…
- And the Log of Logs says…
- Voynich Centenary – Nick’s quire number presentation (preliminary)…
- YAMDTATTH (“yet another michitonese decipherment to add to the heap”)…
- Cod Sang 688 and abbreviated longhand Roman ordinals…
- The Franciscan Voynich Hypothesis – Roger Bacon redux!
- The Lake Constance Voynich hypothesis…
- Norse cosmology Voynich theory…
- Ultimate Voynichiana: Lynn Thorndike’s 1929 review of Newbold’s book…
March 2012
- An entirely different “HC Reynolds”…
- 2012 Arabic Voynich theory…
- 2011 Polish Voynich paper…
- H C Reynolds – we now have a date of birth!
- Alternative Voynich Manuscript Wikipedia page…
February 2012
- Massachusetts Voynich talk this Saturday…
- Beale Papers trivia update…
- Elizebeth Smith Friedman’s papers at the Marshall Foundation…
- The Voynich Manuscript, the ultimate Nigerian scam?
- Like, what is that whole “Voynich Manuscript” thing? I don’t get it.
- Two Italian Voynich novels for you…
- “Between Vellum and Prague” seminar session…
- The mystery of the Voynich Manuscript’s cipher…
- The Carrot Museum takes on the Voynich Manuscript…
- Esther Molen’s Voynich Manuscript f116v theory…
January 2012
- An obfuscation of Voynich novels…
- London Rare Books School 2012 – including a session on historical ciphers…
- First Voynich theory of 2012…
- Nick’s (possibly new) Great Pyramid theory…
- The Great Pyramid’s secret cipher mystery… ;-)
- Well, it’s a start: H C Reynolds’ middle name was Charles!
- Does the ‘Voynich = migraine’ theory make your head hurt too?
- Happy Voynich New Year 2012!
- The elusive Reynolds: from HC to C…?
- H. C. Reynolds: where next? Well…
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December 2011
- Curious runic cipher found on a Cincinnati fence…
- H. C. Reynolds – possibly in Auckland Hospital?
- The Ultimate Christmas Game… the Phaistos Disk?
- Announcing “The Blitz Ciphers”…
- Alchemy decoded, finally…?
- Voynich colour inference, a sure path to madness…
- Amirdovlat Amasiatsi & the Voynich Manuscript…?
- “I want to report a murder” – Otto Kinzel rocks the Zodiac…
- Phaistos disk update…
- H. C. Reynolds’ family…?
- Update on the (elusive) “H. C. Reynolds”…
- The secret history of “Xmas” (the word)…
- Amazing news on The Unknown Man…
- Review: Gavin Menzies’ “The Lost Empire of Atlantis”…
- Voynich Manuscript decrypted by Finnish ‘prophet of god’ via Fox News…
- Nick’s thoughts on the Somerton Man, Part Three…
November 2011
- The Voynich Translation, Chapter 5…
- Review: “Steve Santa and the secret of the Last Parfait”…
- The Voynich Translation, Chapter 4…
- Nick’s thoughts on the Somerton Man, Part Two…
- Nick’s thoughts on the Somerton Man, Part One…
- Vernon Lee’s imagined Renaissance history…
- Letters hidden in Voynich plants (yet again)…
- The Lady Magdalene De Lancey ciphers…
- Kryptos sculpture update…
- A brief history of generated texts…
- Heteroscedasticity and ciphers…
October 2011
- The Queen goes crypto…
- Review of Gerry Feltus’ “The Unknown Man” (Tamam Shud) book…
- Copiale Cipher update…
- Brad Meltzer and the Beale Papers…
- This week’s Zodiac Killer cipher thoughts…
- Oops, that was a nice conference I just missed… :-(
- Today’s Da Vinci claim…
September 2011
- German cipher mystery found and solved!
- Leonardo da Vinci fruity theory roundup…
- Apologies for three missing posts!
- Decent 2010 paper on the Zodiac Killer Ciphers…
- Voynich fruitiness back in season…
- Harvard Professor nearly wades into Voynich swamp…
- Thoughts on the Zodiac Killer Z408 and Z340 ciphers..
- At last, someone ‘gets’ the Voynich Manuscript…
- “Oops, I hid it again”…
August 2011
- Voynich, summer 2011 miscellany…
- Zodiac Killer 340 cipher cracked (…errrm, no, not really, sorry!)
- Le Livre Des Sauvages…
- FS: cursed cipher manuscript, slightly singed…
- Ciphermysteries.com is back online!
July 2011
June 2011
- Milanese enciphered letters, call for help…
- High class Voynich miscellany…
- Voynich – the McCrone report now online!
April 2011
March 2011
- Next Voynich London pub meet – 3rd April 2011…
- John Tiltman’s 1968 Voynich paper…
- Green Voynich pools? I really don’t *think* so, sorry. :-(
February 2011
- 10 rules for making a (proper) Voynich documentary…
- Voynich news from Yale…
- Review of “The Book That Can’t Be Read” Voynich documentary…
- Why the Voynich Manuscript is a ciphertext…
- My proposed ‘Voynich theories’ Wikipedia page…
- U of Arizona Voynich dating update…
- “Naked Science” Nat Geo Voynich documentary…
- Overhauling the Wikipedia Voynich page…
January 2011
- Voynich-themed art installation in Germany…
- Voynich-style challenge cipher from Tony Gaffney…
- “The Voynich Variations” by Edoardo Albert…
- Andrew S. Allen’s “The Thomas Beale Cipher” short film…
- A cipher mystery gravestone that’s truly to die for…
- Who will solve the mystery of the Voynich Manuscript?
- Navajo Voynich theory…
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December 2010
- Jan 2011 Voynich pub meet…?
- Leonardo latest news…
- A Merry Cipher Mysteries Christmas to you!
- Well, here’s where the answer may be found…
- Klaus Schmeh Voynich audio interview…
- “The Cadence of Gypsies” on its way…
November 2010
- First photograph by Durer of a Da Vinci drawing? Riiiiight…
- Leonardo’s unexpected elephant…
- Sean Palmer’s Voynichese word generator…
- J.K.Rowling apologizes for Voynich Manuscript, just a “viral marketing prank”…
- Another Voynich miscellany for you…
October 2010
- “The Voynich Tattoo”
- Micro-review of “The Library of the Dead” by Glenn Cooper…
- Julius Petersen’s signature cryptogram…
- Review of Brad Kelln’s “In Tongues of the Dead”…
- The Voynich Translation – Chapter 3
- James Bond caught with his pants down…
- The “Ptolemy Code” cracked, metal detectorists rejoice…
- The Voynich Translation – Chapter 2
September 2010
- The Voynich Manuscript’s paragraph stars, explained…?
- New Voynich A/B hypothesis…
- The John Dee of Mortlake Society AGM…
- Possibly Voynich-themed Japanese music (etc)…
- “Silk Road prostitution” Voynich theory…
- The 14th European Skeptics Conference – does it really exist?
- Owl House Voynich tattoo gag…
- “The Thomas Beale Cipher” online trailer…
- Occitan herbals and recipe books…
- Voynich pub meet reminder…
- Hacking, ‘Generation R’, and the Voynich Manuscript…
August 2010
- Voynich f116v: pax nax vax?
- Voynich theory: Tolkien, Atlantis, Satan, Nazis, the Pentagon… we live in hell?
- Voynich Quire 20 notes…
- Updated Cipher Mysteries home page…
- Benedek Lang’s Rohonc article in Cryptologia…
- Voynich pub meet – 5th September 2010, Wapping…
- “So goddamn Voynich…”
- “I’ll give it to you to suck, FINISH HIM.” (yes, really)…
- The secret history of Voynich chicken scratches…
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Popular Historians…
- Review of Latayne C. Scott’s “Latter-Day Cipher”…
- Review of Brett King’s “The Radix”…
- Polanski’s “The Ghostwriter”…
- Voynich pub meet – Summer 2010…
- Chaocipher updates…
July 2010
- The Voynich silly season is upon us (which is a shame)…
- Edith Rickert, revisited…
- Review of Enrique Joven’s “The Book of God and Physics”…
- Isaac Casaubon’s “Ephemerides”…
- Voynich chicken scratches…
- A Beautiful Infinity…
- Some Voynich short stories…
- Codes on film!
- Visually mapping Cusanus and Bessarion…
- David A. King’s Regiomontanus acrostic theory…
- The Chaocipher got Slashdotted!
- The Chaocipher revealed!
- Astrolabes, nocturnals and Voynich Manuscript page f57v…
June 2010
- Some anonymous Voynich quotes for you…
- Circa 2010, what are the frontiers of Voynich knowledge?
- Jim Gillogly’s Beale sequence revisited…
- The Beale Papers Paradox…
- Anna-Lise Horsley’s Voynich-inspired art…
- The four main Voynich ghosts…
- Palaeography’s death warrant signed… but by whom?
May 2010
- Peanuts meets the Voynich Manuscript…
- A miscellany of nine-rosette links…
- Is it time for a Voynich-themed Garfield strip?
- Wikipedia and the Voynich Manuscript…
- Is the nine-rosette sea-side castle Nice?
- “Criminal Minds” Voynich-themed fanfiction (part 1)…
- A little more on Savoy…
- George Sand’s cryptography!
- Hoaxed history stuff…
- Chinese Voynich theories…
- Cipher Mysteries – 100,000 visit milestone!
- “Weird or What?” Voynich segment…
- Voynich f116v “nichil” update…
- Voynich segment on “Weird or What?” tonight…
- Savoy palaeography: was michiton originally nichil?
April 2010
- “Actually, I’m writing a book on machines”…
- Thoughts on Johann Adam Schall von Bell…
- Review of “Cracking Codes & Cryptograms for Dummies”…
- Rene’s voynich.nu relaunch…
- Review: Michael Jacobson’s asemic books…
- Review of Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes”…
- Scottish puzzlemaster wanted…
- Voynich theory roundup…
- New d’Agapeyeff cipher site…
- Go Oilers…
March 2010
- Of bedknobs and grimoires…
- Two more Voynich novels…
- Barbara Barrett’s VMs Fortean Times article…
- Upcoming cipher talk in Jersey…
- Voynichese ololol (lol!)
- The evolution of Voynichese…?
- Is Voynichese stateless or stateful?
- Voynich cipher crib thoughts…
- Review of Christopher Harris’ “Mappamundi”…
- Review of “The Alexander Cipher”…
- Review of Bill Napier’s “Shattered Icon”…
- The least mysterious manuscript in the world…
- Review of “The Charlemagne Pursuit”…
- Review of David Gibbins’ “Atlantis”…
- Hoax astronaut!
- Voynichese vs Marginalia – the nature of unreadability…
- New Romanian Voynich theory…
- Some nice manuscript-related links…
- Voynich marginalia: French Secretary hand?
- Elmar’s new Voynich marginalia page…
February 2010
- Letters hidden in Voynich plants…
- “Love In Idleness” and the VMs…
- Filelfo’s 1465 letter to George Amirutzes…
- Square #1 & wife #8…
- The VMs in ten words…
- The birds, the birds…
- Rene Z’s bifolio surprise…
- MS Coislin 338 & the Voynich Manuscript…?
- Ethel Voynich at 95!
- Edith Sherwood on the Vinland Map dating…
- The balneological Panteo…
- Musical cryptogram for you…
- The Birth of the Illuminati…
- “The Voynich Code” movie…
- More APOD spin-off comments…
- Voynich Manuscript APOD, yet again…
January 2010
- The Final Blow
- Review: Erich von Däniken’s “History Is Wrong”…
- Parchminers, scriveners, lymners, bookbinders, stationers…
- Coming soon to your TV: “The Voynich Channel”?
- Bert Hall’s 1979 article…
- Upcoming crypto talk by Lawren Smithline…
- SCRIPT 1.2 – special Voynich section…
- Interesting history talks for early 2010…
- “That’s Life, Samara Brooks”…
- “Voynich Averlino hypothesis” summary…
- Some online herbals…
- Kicked out of the Independent Researcher Guild…?
- The Center for Cryptologic History’s 2010 calendar…!
- Proto-Swedish Voynich food theory…
- Voynich quill forensics…?
- More 1400-1500 dress sources…
- “Renaissance Dress in Italy : 1400-1500″…?
2009 225
December 2009
- Happy New Year, and some predictions for 2010…
- Bacon = Shakespeare, 2009 remix…
- Roger Bacon & the Voynich Manuscript, revisited…
- “The Curse of the Voynich”, now back in print…
- Pre-1450 German Voynich possibility…?
- Voynich Cisioianus cipher crib…?
- Voynich palimpsest hypothesis…?
- Asemic Voynich poem…
- The (Wilfrid) Voynich Files…
- Leonardo’s telescope…??!?
- Das Voynich-Rätsel – now viewable online (but hurry!)
- Mormons, Masons, and Mario…?
- Austrian Voynich trailer…
- Was vellum stored flat, folded or cut…?
- Voynich Manuscript – the state of play…
- First Voynich clues from Austria…
November 2009
- More early modern correspondence sources…
- eBay crystal sphere – bargain or scam?
- Other Kinner letters…
- “The statistics of meaning”…
- Austrian “The Voynich Riddle” documentary…
- “Sous Le Manteau De La Nuit” (2007)…
- Micky Bet Voynich piece, now in English (sort of)…
- “Alien” cipher language…?
- Occulto TV’s Voynich Manuscript intro…
- The Secret History of That Which Is Secret…
- Every Voynich Book Ever Written (Condensed)…
- Richard Rogers’ Voynich theory…
- Voynichese = Biliteral Cipher?
- Pater Castell and the Voynich Manuscript, reviewed…
- Voynich Manuscript “cosmic wormhole” theory…
- Untweetable Voynich Manuscript limerick…
- Nick’s Voynich Manuscript limerick…
October 2009
- “Decoding the lost symbols” mini-conference…
- 1926 Budapest crossword suicide…?
- “Das Voynichmanuskript aus pharmaziehistorischer Sicht”…
- The Two Guillaumes (Rondelet and Pellicier)…
- Upcoming Spanish and German Voynich novels…
- “Don’t pay the Illuminati”… :-)
- Conspiracy map (v0.1)…
- Voynich f42r chol / shol mystery…
- Updated Cipher Mysteries Voynich page
- Father Castell and “The Voynich Club”…
- “Micro Men” musings…
- The latest date for the Voynich Manuscript…
- Unusual quire numbers, revisited…
- The Beinecke Library’s Voynich Manuscript page…
- Something Awful, Voynich Scallop riff…
- “The Inscrutable Dr Woo Manchu” (Part 1)…
- Review of Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol”…
September 2009
- Voynich Summer Camp IM, transcript of session #2…
- “Voynich Conspiracy” now running in Prague…?
- Jhen & the Voynich Manuscript…
- Report on the Kevin Knight MIT lecture…
- Anthony Grafton article on the Republic of Letters…
- Nick Pelling online radio interview with Red Ice Creations…
- “Voynich Manuscript Project” short film…
- James Amelang’s “The Flight of Icarus”…
- Dan Brown and the Dorabella Cipher…
- VMs parallel hatching / dating page…
- Dorabella latest news…
- Kevin Knight Voynich lecture at MIT…
- The Mayor’s Thames Festival 2009…
- Voynich Summer Camp, transcript of session #1…
- Antonio of Florence translation…
- The secret history of “Antonio of Florence”…
- Blog server migration (*yuk*)…
- Chrysopoeia versus Mythopoeia…
- The “Anthony z Florencie” manuscript, continued…
August 2009
- Otakar Zachar’s (1899) “The True Path of Alchemy” book…
- “The True Path of Alchemy” is *not* the VMs…
- Earliest archival reference to the Voynich Manuscript…???
- Voynich cipher structure…
- “The Mysterious Case of the Voynich Manuscript”…
- Spanish Voynich cartoon…
- “De Aqua” Voynich theory on YouTube…
- Hungarian Voynich summer camp…!?
- Jaume Deydier’s “livre de raison”…
- Cipher Mysteries London pub meet…
- “Statistics can help decode VMs” shocker…
- “Old Latin” Voynich theory…
- The “Tamam Shud” cipher mystery…
- “I Am Darknesse” Voynich story…
July 2009
- Voynich xkcd Wikirank spike…
- Wikipedia, XKCD and the Voynich Manuscript…
- Codex Sinaiticus, now online…
- Voynich filigree?
- VBI, now in English English!
- The “Voynich Bullshit Index”…
- “WordPress Comment” FeedFlare (say what?)
June 2009
- Voynich challenges, updated…
- Italian Voynich talks…
- Upcoming François Almaleh talk…
- A new Voynich research angle…
- Roberto Salvidio’s Italian Voynich novel “Codex”…
- Por le bon Simon Sint… what?
- Post slowdown…
- The Juan Roget telescope inventor theory, revisited…
- Q13 and Voynich balneology sources…?
- Hieronymus Reusner & the Voynich Manuscript…
- Barcelona blog musings…
- Voynich tapas selection…
- Voynich: ‘4o’ = ‘lo’ ?
- 1908 Archaeologia article on Temple Bruer…
- Flying Spaghetti Monster & the Voynich Manuscript…
- DIY Voynich theory construction…
- Jewish Arabic Voynich theory
- Von Daniken & Voynich update…
- The Voynich Cipher for code-breakers…
- Voynich theory in a webcomic…
- Review of Latayne Scott’s “Latter-Day Cipher”…
- Jody Maat’s “Old Dutch” Voynich theory…
- The Anthon Transcript…
May 2009
- Is this the way to Armadillo?
- The Voynich’s alphabet and steganography…
- Some new Voynich Manuscript blogs…
- Regiomontanus and Filarete…
- Steve Ekwall’s Folding Key…
- The Voarchadumia & John Dee…
- Early modern palaeography source books…
- Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Filarete… aha!
- Excellent Codex Seraphinianus article…
- Review of “Stigmata”…
- Early American ciphers…
- Cod. Pal. Germ. 597’s cipher…
- Johannes Hartlieb and flying potions…
- Per-degree astrology, old and new…
- Voynich newsbites…
- Calcagnini letters book at auction…
- How to become an Ascended Master of Google-fu…
- Hans Carvel, retold for the txt generation…
- “Fringe” Glyph Cipher broken…
- Florentine astrology shorthand…?
- Once again, two more Renaissance ciphers yield to Mr Gaffney…
- The New Mayflower & Wilfrid Voynich…
April 2009
- The Voynich Translation – Chapter 1
- Indus script & Markov models…
- 4th Bellaso cipher toppled, Tony Gaffney strikes again!
- Edith Rickert’s & Margaret Rickert’s papers…
- Edith Rickert and the Voynich Manuscript…
- Some more Voynich-inspired artworks…
- Mercantesca, Leonardo, and the Voynich Manuscript…
- Decode the Voynich Manuscript in Only Five Years…
- Two more Renaissance challenge ciphers cracked!
- The Turin Shroud and Jesus’ haircut…?
- Knights Templar & the Turin Shroud!
- The cipher mystery of “Esio Trot”!
- Vellum reasoning chain…
- A guide to Leonardo da Vinci’s handwriting…
- The Fake Factory
- Voynich nymphs = pigeage à pied?
- Voynich project at the Big Walnut Science Fair…?
- The Oera Linda Book: a right proper hoax, I say…
- Basil Brush and a (pre)cautionary tail…
- u r so qokedy daiin, m8 lol
- Temporary email disruption…
- Elias Schwerdtfeger’s “biological paradox”…
March 2009
- 450-year-old challenge cipher cracked!
- Secrets of Herbiculture or of Herbal Medicine?
- Rushkoff: Capitalism vs The Middle Ages…?
- Voynich herbal page order…
- The Voynich Christ…
- Glen Claston on binding…
- D’Imperio’s “Elegant Enigma”, now a downloadable PDF!
- Generic historical cipher mystery (short version)…
- Voynich Photoshop gags…
- Is Dorabella a rotating pigpen…?
- Glen Claston on the Voynich Manuscript…
- Caravaggio’s crushed fireflies…?!?!?
- What is a quire?
- Quire 20 folio ordering…
- Robert Teague’s Voynich claim…
- Voynich rendered art
- Voyn-ish video…
- Voynich dreams…
- Voynich Scrabble…?
- Nice Rohonc Codex summary…
- The Voynich Fugue
- Recent cipher challenges…
- Voynich Manuscript & X-Files… =:-o
- A Voynich “breakthrough”? Hmmm…
February 2009
- Voynich Quire 8… what happened?
- Correspondence Projects page…
- Ongoing WordPress hackery…
- New Dorabella Cipher page…
- All about the Chaocipher…
- Tycho Brahe’s handkerchief…?
- Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts…
- Brahe’s moustache: murder, it wrote?
- Monsters and the abyss…
- Edith Sherwood’s anagram cipher…
- History or mystery…?
- Nostradamus quatrain cipher…?
- What is a ciphertext?
- “Historian” the 7th best job?
- Sarah Goslee’s reconstructed codex…
- Review of “The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus”…
- Apollo vs Dionysus, the eternal grudge-match…
- Cryptography vs Cryptanalysis vs Cryptology…
- LibraryThing as a research tool…
- The 300th post: whither goest 2009?
January 2009
- Review of “People of the Book”…
- Jan Brueghel the Elder’s telescopes…
- Voynich Ms Reading List Recommendations…?
- Alberti circa 1465…
- New Beale Papers Theory…
- The Voynich “Apollo” sun…
- Wall-E and the Voynich Manuscript…
- New Leonardo + Voynich Ms + Tarot article…
- Jens Sensfelder crossbow article…
- Bellaso’s ciphers, updated…
- German zodiac woodcuts…?
- Elmar Vogt’s new Voynich blog…
- The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Pub Quiz Team…
- “Knowledge of the Flesh”
- Enciphered diaries…
- Ukrainian Voynich theory…
- “Impossible Objects” announced…
- History Today Awards 2009…
- The Tepenecz f1r signature…
- A mainstream codicological novel, really?
- Other Euro Voynich books…
- German Voynich books…
- A “Curse” on eBay.co.uk…
- Vinland Map latest…