Voynich Manuscript, coded manuscript, unknown language, mystery book
The Voynich Manuscript, cataloged as Beinecke MS 408 at Yale University, is a real medieval codex filled with unidentified writing and unusual illustrations. Radiocarbon testing dates the parchment to...
16 Aug 28min
Amelia Earhart: The Last Flight and the Island Theory
On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the central Pacific while trying to reach Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E. The Coast Guard cutter Itasca received se...
9 Aug 23min
Elisa Lam: The Hotel Death That Turned Into an Internet Obsession
In early twenty thirteen, twenty-one-year-old Canadian student Elisa Lam disappeared while staying at the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, then partly operating as Stay on Main. The Los Angeles Po...
3 Aug 25min
The Zodiac Killer: The Ciphers, the Letters, and the Identity That Still Haunts America
On July thirty-first, nineteen sixty-nine, three Bay Area newspapers received letters from an unidentified killer. Each envelope contained one-third of a cipher and a demand for publication. The write...
26 Juli 26min
Cicada 3301: The Internet Puzzle That Looked Like a Recruitment Test
On January fourth, twenty twelve, an anonymous image appeared on fourchan with a stark claim: its creators sought highly intelligent people. Hidden inside the file was the first step in a cryptographi...
18 Juli 25min
Black Dahlia: The Hollywood Myth That Buried Elizabeth Short
On January fifteenth, nineteen forty-seven, the body of twenty-two-year-old Elizabeth Short was found in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. The homicide investigation was led by the Los Angeles Police Depar...
13 Juli 24min
Somerton Man: The Body, the Book, and the Probable Name Carl Webb
On December first, nineteen forty-eight, a well-dressed dead man was found on Somerton Beach near Adelaide, South Australia. He carried no identification. His fingerprints did not match South Australi...
12 Juli 17min
