This Paranormal Life - #071 Mysterious Alien Book Found: The Voynich Manuscript

Episode Date: July 24, 2018

There's a lot of important old dusty books in the world. But the most important of all, is one you may never have even heard of: The Voynich Manuscript.A truly alien text, written in a completely unknown language, depicting impossible scenes. It has baffled some of the smartest people on planet earth. Is it an alien grey's diary? An encyclopaedia from another dimension? Or something stranger?! Find out on this episode of This Paranormal Life!Support us on Patreon.com/ThisParanormalLife to get access to weekly bonus episodes!Buy Official TPL Merch! - thisparanormallife.com/storeFollow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTubeJoin our Secret Society Facebook CommunityIntro music by www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Was the X-Files a documentary? Should we be buying gold for when democracy crumbles? All these questions you can find the answer to on this episode of This Paranormal Life. Hey! Welcome back to the podcast. It is Tuesday once again. You are listening to your favorite paranormal podcast in the whole wide world. You're being joined by myself, Kit Greer.

This guy, Rory Pars. How are you doing today, Rory? Hello, hey. That's paranormal code for hello. That's some pretty deep shit if you guys thought one right over your head. It did mine, to be honest. We'll ask Rory about that at the end of the show. Try deciphering that, you CIA Astrid's Bay.

This Paranormal Life is the podcast where every week we dissect a different paranormal tale, claim, or beast and get to the bottom of whether it's true or false. As always, we are going to dive right in to today's investigation. I love that for once there's a podcast on iTunes to get straight to the point. You know, if you're hiking up in the Himalayas and the Yeti pops up out of nowhere, you don't go, oh, hang on a second. Okay, how was your week? How are the family doing? up out of nowhere. You don't go, oh, hang on a second. Kit, how was your week? How are the family doing?

Pretty bad, actually. You sucker punch that bad boy in his frosty snowballs and hope he drops fast enough to net him. That's right. This podcast is maybe registered in the entertainment category of iTunes. This is actually education. This is borderline survival tactics. Exactly. There was no category. So we're just going to invent our own category for iTunes called bestiality survival.

Man v. Beast. We had to petition hard to get that added to the drop down menu. You don't want to know what those sick thought it was. I digress. Our story begins at villa mondragon in the hills of castelli romani wow italy a region known for its many castles and villas at the mondragon popes throughout history would stay there this venue was so important that the calendar itself, the calendar that we use today as a civilization, the Gregorian calendar, was decreed there to be used across the world. Wow. Even my calendar?

Like the one with the sexy fireman on it? Especially the sexy fireman calendar. These were lonely priests. It's actually a fun fact not many people know, but sexy calendars, sexy novelty calendars, were actually invented before the regular calendar. Yeah. They were desperate, horny times.

Exactly. You don't even want to see the Mayan calendar. That thing is borderline just porn. Borderline not suitable for Mayans. Mondragon was steeped in hundreds of years of western history before in the 1800s the papal establishment abandoned it leaving it to a group of jesuits who resided there for almost 100 years the mondragon required massive upkeep because of its size the jesuits struggled to finance the maintenance of the building and at the turn of the 20th century, they had no choice but to sell some of the villa's history to stay afloat. See, this is the problem, all right?

What you have is you've built this giant calendar factory in a date where people don't give a crap about time. I guess that's true. These are the olden days. You know, imagine going to someone and you're sitting in your carriage on the way to the town. And you're like, thank goodness it's Friday, right? And Craig turns to you and goes, what the f*** are you talking about? We just made up days. What's a day?

These are like angry, stuck in their way people. You know, they don't care. Just think how chaotic it was before the calendar was invented right you know there was no like oh yeah so what are you up to uh tonight what's a tonight i'm scared life was just one 24 7 struggle in the the pitch of night exactly trying to goddamn gather berries to survive or some shit because you didn't know you could just leave gathering berries until the sun came up again you didn't know if the sun was going to come up again ever going to come up again also you don't know what breakfast is lunch

or dinner you're starving your skinny little caveman ass off you're hungry as shit but is it time to eat no idea no idea no idea you've heard that you don't want to eat three hours before bedtime. Right. You don't want to carb load pre-bed. But you don't know what f***ing bedtime is. So your overweight ass is now sleeping on a pile of grass midday because you don't know what night is. Chaos.

Chaos. So that's the problem. These people don't care about calendars. No one's going to buy them. The castle's going to get run down. You're not going to be able to fix it. It's true. You know, this was before Rolex invented a stylish way of keeping time.

Right. Solid gold, massive obnoxious watches. Exactly. That really spoke to people's interest in time. Unrelated, but if you want to support us the patreon link will be in the description and just yeah just throwing that in there yep we have an affiliate link for rolex so if anyone's thinking of picking up a roly use uh coupon code paraswag that's right they had to sell some of the villa's history just to stay afloat. And of course, this news was like a drop of blood in a pool of sharks for collectors of the obscure and esoteric.

And one great white went by the name of Wilfrid Voynich. Voynich was a Polish book dealer. He opened his first bookshop at 1 Soho Square in London in 1898 1898 wow do you know soho square yeah i used to work there really well near near there yeah it's got like the if people have been to london been to central london they might have stumbled across it it's that kind of square park with the very very ancient looking kind of house in the middle. Yeah. And he was at number one, selling his rare and obscure finds. He had a curious gift for finding rare books. On one mission to Italy, he even found a Malermi Bible,

the first Italian Bible created in the 1400s. Good God. This is a photo of Mr. Voynich in his bookshop. Listeners, you can find this image in the Patreon show notes at patreon.com forward slash this paranormal life. This is pretty much what I would imagine you're expecting. That is a giant book. That book is too large for a man.

That book is probably the size of his what torso yeah larger if i found the first ever italian bible by the way i would straight up change the name of the lead to rory and just say that in the translation i'd be like oh yours is jesus that's weird i found the first ever italian bible and it actually says rory so then everyone's like oh my god it's you so vain but there's a lot of people called jesus in the world yeah it's a it's almost the most popular name in some cultures i'm just saying i've never met a guy called jesus yeah well that's because you don't have any friends from that part of the world you're not from there but it doesn't make that your information i have very few friends in this

part of the world so how does that make you feel because it makes me feel like shit? You're making everything about you. Literally you're rewriting the Bible to be about you. He was even reportedly investigated by the FBI for possession of books with hidden knowledge Encrypted using the bacon cipher a method devised by francis bacon in the 1600s see he did it no i bet that was already a way to decipher something and then he's like really because i heard it was called the bacon cipher after me jesus wouldn't that be the jesus shut up yeah it's like wouldn't it just be easier to change your name to jesus than change the original

bible to rory shit that's actually pretty smart not only did francis bacon help invent the scientific method but it is believed by some that he actually wrote some of shakespeare's works come on and encoded within them hidden messages do you think like instead of the merchant of venice it was really supposed to be like the spaceship of venus there's like hidden paranormal clues in the text there could be interesting bacon was despite being a man of science he was also purveyor of the occult rumored to be an alchemist the type of people that were trying to turn dirt into gold or some shit whatever they do whatever the hell dumbledore did for that crazy ass school freaking private school that all politicians go to what is it eaten could you imagine if you just like you were like harry potter and you turned 10 years old oh harry the

owl has arrived you've been you've been invited to go to hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry and it's like you know get the train there all the students are arriving and you come in you come in and then door slams dumbledore's on a podium chucking out shovels and he's like you best start mining dirt boys because it's got gold mine coming and you just realize that you've been trapped in the biggest child labor camp in the world you best start believing in our gorge camp for children because you're living in it after you know you've been trying to turn dirt into gold for several days now dumbledore's walking past one of the the concentration lines and you're like dumbledore like please like when are we gonna

learn how to do real magic and it's like soon you'll all be able to do this pulls like a pound coin out from behind his ear it's like we saw like it was really badly done as well. You could see it in his hand. Ignore that car shooting out of his wrists and everything. He hasn't managed to turn an ounce of dirt into gold yet. You turn around and see the Hogwarts sign of witchcraft and wizardry drop down to reveal the Hogwarts school of shitcraft and misery. You're like, why would you write how bad it is on a sign you obviously believe that then you know it's fat it's like i should have known something was wrong when that owl that delivered the letter was so malnourished he's just like

like one droopy eye like letters kind of like scratchily wrote like you'd get a letter from a nigerian prince asking for money well this mysterious merchant of rare books voynich purchased 30 manuscripts from the mondragon archives little did he know that hiding in these 30 was a book like no other, known to some as the most mysterious text of all time. A text that would swallow entire careers and elude understanding by some of the smartest people in history. When Voynich opened this manuscript for the first time, he couldn't believe his eyes i think i know what it is i want to say it on three okay one two three twilight what you think that why do you look shocked twilight's a really recent book 99 sure is going to be the first book in the twilight saga which was written what in this millennium yeah i mean it was like 10 years

old is shit it's hard to date i told you this is like 19 what like 19 four or some shit yeah yeah again vampires you don't think vampires are all okay what can i say sorry i just thought i was gonna be twilight and you thought that was one of the most mysterious books of all time hell yeah swallowed careers i guess it did swallow careers you're right it's actually shit holy crap an alternate title was twilight and you don wow yeah they even had the hashtag team jacob right on the front oh my god this is wow page after page of this manuscript written in a beautiful but completely unknown language it looked like a written human language, but unlike any he'd seen before.

It sounded like you were going really big with it. The power of a good story took me over. Is it on here? It looked like a written human language, but unlike any he had seen before. The letters ran from left to right, like English, and the letters indeed made up words, like any regular language, but there was no apparent punctuation.

Alongside the writing were beautiful illustrations. They seemed to depict the natural world, plants, humans, diagrams of living things. Emojis. And the... Smiley faces. Frowny faces. A salsa dancing woman. A cowboy hat.

The cosmos, stars, planets and constellations all depicted, except everything was a little off. The plants weren't identifiable. Like android emojis. Like kind of weird versions of the ones you usually see. Weird and bad. Yeah. The plants weren't identifiable, although they looked highly similar to exotic plants. The stars and planets, they didn't actually correspond to the stars and planets around the Earth today.

To try and recreate some of the same viewing experience that Voynich had, I have here to show you some scans from the original manuscript. Wow, this is incredible. So this is some real first-hand evidence. Image one. We have some slightly bizarre looking plants. Yeah, looks like two very close-up sketchings of sugar puffs on the top of the page with some text in the middle some seaweed like bushes at the bottom here we have one of the fold out sections it was actually a scratch and sniff um with little interactive tabs you could pull very dare you yeah these are some of the kind of constellation mandala style illustrations is a pretty low res image actually but it's still a very detailed drawing very there's a very

talented artist that drew that here is a kind of example of the writing so you can get a feel for how human it looked but how it doesn't make any sense okay i so it is it does look kind of old-timey um you know there's a certain amount of calligraphy that went into this it just looks like gibberish english yeah it actually reminds me of iberish like uh english like sorry i'll stop elvish or you know remember in lord of the rings the kind of Elvis is written on the ring when it like heats up It kind of looks like that some of the letters look like English letters, but not quite which is crazy by the way I mean if you have a ring that powerful you should write in full English what it does in block capitals You would have saved people a lot of time like when Frodo got that bad boy

None of this throw it in the fire bullshit he picks it up and it's like turns you invisible it's like wow i should really protect this not any of this like oh throw it in the fire then the text glows then get an old man to translate it then we'll figure no it turns you invisible and if it's a magic ring why can't you know the language just like change right yeah no one speaks that elvish, so let's put it in common tongue or whatever the shit they called it. Exactly. Doesn't make any sense. Now to those listening at home, I know this makes bad podcasting, but these images are available again in the show notes on Patreon.

And this manuscript was no short read at over 240 pages in length with folding out sections like we just saw and illustrations on almost every page. Whatever the author wanted to encode in this was huge. The first puzzle was the script's age. How old could it be? The mysterious language meant one of two things. Either the book was so ancient it was written in a forgotten language, encoded with mysteries

we may never understand, or the book was modern and a hoax. Can't you date the paper? Isn't that something that scientists can do? Not back in like the early 1900s. Right. That shit hadn't been made up yet. Fair enough. But luckily, there were records of the book throughout history.

What we do know is that Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II bought the book himself 500 years ago for two kilos of gold. Jesus, that red-nosed bastard. It's not. He what? Yeah, well, it's Rudolf II, so I guess it's Rudolf the reindeer's son predecessor after that jet engine so that makes sense what jet engine i thought that was common knowledge oh like you know it's like rudolph the red no i can't i don't want to do the whole song but i'll just you know skip okay let's get through and one foggy christmas eve santa, I don't know why I started then. It's still so much more to go. Then all the reindeer loved him and they shouted out with glee.

Quite a lot more to go. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, you'll go down in history. Look out for the f***ing plane! And that was, that's the, like the full version that my dad used to sing to me. Really? And then Rudolph, shoomph, straight in. What, he screamed the end of it? Yeah. Every time? that's the like the full version that my dad used to sing to me really and then rudolph straight well he screamed the end of it yeah every time up the chimney it was like a tradition that

we used to do to warn santa but we lost several reindeer that year and that's why this is probably rudolph ii but we have no idea who holy roman emperor rudolph ii bought it from or why basically it was passed on through various owners over the next hundred years before it ended up with the Jesuits what are your thoughts right now imagine your Voynich himself is this book from an alternate dimension written by an ancient secret society are the plants of alien origin I don't know these are huge leaps to be making by the way right off the bat like I think if you're someone who's collected weird manuscripts and mysterious books from the past,

this probably isn't the first time you've come across something weird if you didn't know the origin of it. Yeah, but is it the first time he's seen something in a language that is completely unidentifiable as any other language? It probably is. Does that mean it is necessarily paranormal no it could have been written by a lunatic we don't know these things so far and also if you don't know what the book is saying it's weird to jump to conclusions that it is saying anything mysterious but what do you make of it seems to depict like an encyclopedia plants life animals stars and constellations that are not our own i mean yeah that's pretty weird but i mean i could do that right now on a sheet of paper that doesn't make it and write gerbilaben right beside it these

are fair accusations you know and ones that other people had. Well, needless to say, Voynich didn't really know where to begin. You can imagine he tried deciphering it himself, but simple attempts were doomed. He realized that if he wanted any hope of understanding it, he would need to enlist the help of the best in the biz. He actually spent the next seven years hunting down the greatest minds in the world to try and decode the bastard. But one by one one linguists shook their heads in defeat there were just too many holes people hypothesized it was an encyclopedia of plants and animals on another continent but it didn't match anywhere some people said it was a hoax but one attempt to recreate the book by hand took something like three to four years to do

jesus because it's many hundreds of thousands of characters. Right. Which would be a crazy commitment to a simple hoax. And the idea that it was a code could still be true. But even hundreds of years after its creation, it seemed still impossible to hack. Even decades later, after the Second World War, a team of world-famous cryptologists,

including William Friedman, who cracked of world-famous cryptologists, including William Friedman, who cracked the Japanese Purple Code during wartime, were drafted in for an even greater battle than World War II, decoding the Voynich Manuscript. Him staring at a sheet of paper for hours, and it just is like Purple War II. It's staring there for hours and hours. And it's like, my God, it's world. Purple is world. It's like the war is over. It's been over for years.

He's stranded on a remote island in the Pacific. It's the 70s. And then he phones up one of the colonels. He's like, colonel, I cracked it, I know what it is! And he's like, we all know what it is. I think you're the only one in the purple who doesn't know what this is. What? We all say it now! We say it for world! Your wife and kids have been trying to contact you for 30 years.

You're green and blue, don't know where you are! What's, what? More codes! It'll take me the rest of my life to figure these out. But these world famous cryptologists tried everything, More codes! It'll take me the rest of my life to figure these out. But these world-famous cryptologists tried everything, but even they couldn't make a dent. But if it wasn't a code, that left another potentially paranormal explanation. Is it a real language? A language of a lost civilization?

A time traveler? Dimension hopper? Or a grey? Back in 1912, this question was purely speculative, but as technology advanced, new techniques became possible. Linguists and data scientists teamed up to apply statistical analysis to the text and disturbingly found… it makes sense. Whoa. I mean, they still don't know what it means. But statistically, this was a

perfectly devised language. It wasn't gobbledygook. The distribution of letters, the frequency and variation of vowel sounds versus consonants within words, the size of vocabulary, and the word selection used across dozens of different topics, all resembled a natural language not only is the writing so complex as to be improbably made up but the entire theory of language and statistical analysis you would have to know to recreate this did not exist in the 1500s i assume to sort this out they got like a team of 20 scientists in the modern day in a laboratory all just you know examining the book day and night and then one the janitor of the lab, like, walks up, you know, cleaning up after a late night shift, and they're all still staring at the book.

God, I wonder, like, how many secrets are tangled in this, you know, unconquerable code. And he just walks over and turns the book the right way up. Get the president on the phone! Jesus! It reads in perfectly normal english cleaner you are the chosen one the only one wise tonight to unlock the code and now it is time to distill the wisdom of the sacred text onto you. Edward Cullen was no normal boy. His vampire family had moved to the small...

It's Twilight. It was Twilight the whole time. The greatest book of all time. You can't call yourself that. You can't print that in the book. You sound just like a teen Edward. The book's about edward come on he's obviously the hottest so what we're dealing with here is some seriously complex language that does make sense it seems impossible that anyone could have hoaxed this at least in the past and

at this point naysayers have said, impossible. This cannot be true. Surely, Voynich himself, the sneaky bastard, created this as a hoax and claimed it was hundreds of years old just to sell books. Never even thought about that. Until 2009, when Arizona University finally carbon dated the book. Now we've got the technology, let's put this thing under the microscope and find out for real if that... Can I call him a bastard again? If that sneaky son of a bitch truly hoaxed us.

And not only did they find the book is old, it's older than first imagined. They actually dated it to the year 1404. This means there's at least a hundred years from its creation to being bought by Rudolph the Red-Nosed Emperor, where we don't know where it was or who had it. Jeez. Basically, we know that it is definitively not a hoax. It is too complex, too old, and too painstakingly difficult to recreate to have been a hoax. So this places it in the camp of either some

sort of unknown mysterious paranormal explanation, or it is an uncracked code. Luckily, as technology is always advancing, we now have tools at our disposal that weren't even available in 2009. Which is why, in order to understand this alien grey diary, scientists have got Siri on the job. That's right, AI had a go. And our listeners might have seen the headlines this year that the Voynich manuscript mystery has been solved by AI. No one saw this, by the way. I guarantee you nobody saw this. No one saw this on crystalinks.com.

I beg to differ. The most reputable news site in the current day, right next to infowars.com. I'll have you know that a lot of New York Times journalists actually moonlight as crystalink.com writers. So it's actually pretty f***ing reputable. But I wanted to set the record straight that whilst they did work out using ai that if you arrange the words in a certain way and give each letter a hebrew character you can read some of the script in ancient hebrew but

it is far from cracked as hebrew scholars don't even agree with this assessment. And the aliens who wrote the book might have just learned ancient Hebrew in order to write this after all. That's a big leap, by the way. Also, it sounds like Siri hasn't cracked it then. No, Siri... If it's unreadable. That's what I mean.

Siri's done very little. Yeah, journalists really ran with the headline on that one. I don't know why in my head as well, them getting Siri on it is just putting the book down and go, Siri, decipher. Translate. Yeah. Setting an alarm for one. No, Siri.

Calling mom. No, Siri. Calling Voynich manuscript. No. What? Scientists. You have called. What? That's all we had to do today the archive that houses the manuscript receives thousands of emails a month from would-be cryptologists who claim to have cracked the code however only one man has succeeded indiana jones what apparently in the

indiana jones books he decoded the voynich manuscript and used it to find the location of the philosopher's stone wow that's dope as hell i didn't even know there were indiana jones books yeah so we know it's canon but is it true alien diary interdimensional handbook encyclopedia from a lost civilization what do you think this thing is well kid it's interesting i actually have a little bit of experience as a code breaker myself really when i was younger i used to read a series called do you remember the artemis fowl book series uh i don't think i read them as a child i was aware of them i think they're turning them into movies now a series of movies uh but the books were about a young rich boy who basically killed fairies really twisted i don't know how i say it a little shit thing to do

yeah use all that cash to hunt fairies but basically in the the novel series in every single book they had a different fairy language quote unquote uh that at one point you'd always see an entire message written out in fairy that a character in the book would then be able to translate into english now if you were one of the eagle-eyed gifted students like i was you notice that at the bottom of every single page there were lines of fairy illustrations down at the bottom so basically what you could do when you were finished with the book was translate all the the text at the bottom of every single page of the artemis fowl book to reveal a secret message left in fairy god damn and what did it reveal what was the the secret message of the fairy

it was literally like if you are reading this congratulations jesus you are a half blood or whatever it is like half fairy half human and it was you know it was basically everything that a kid growing up reading these books wanted to hear basically you're special you're not a normal human you're a beast like you're talented all regards you're sexy you've got a hog you're you're gonna smash it in the future all this kind of stuff yeah and like protect the earth because you are a super child basically um so i reckon i like i don't think those skills have perished with age i reckon if i had a swing at this book I'd be able to tell you exactly what it says. A very interesting idea.

If you want, I can pull up some of the actual excerpts from the book here. I believe there's like a high definition PDF scan offered by Yale University. So we could just fire some up right now and just see what you... Hold my bluff. There is no Artemis Fowll novel series i made the whole thing up i carved my own language into the bark of a tree telling the world i was a badass that's all that happened so i have to transport myself back into the mind of a 14 year old boy garrison alone with his only friend being the warmth and brace

of the book that told him he was special come on rory come on and i'm going to link to this in the again the patreon show notes a high quality version of the voynich manuscript in all its glory so you can uh have a crack at trying to break the code here. But I'm sure Rory is about to crack it for us anyway. But you can double check his work. Yeah. Don't big me up too much, though. You're really bigging me up.

And I'm feeling a lot of pressure now. I mean, I'm not bigging you up. It's just that we went to Paranormal University and we studied every language under the sun. I mean, I know it gets a little rusty over time, but we studied ancient Hebrew, Greek, all of the classical. I mean, I know it gets a little rusty over time, but we studied ancient Hebrew. Exactly. Greek. All of the classical languages.

French. Yeah. So hopefully, if anyone's going to get this, we can get this. I'll just let you have a scroll through the first few pages of the manuscript here. I actually got pretty bonjour at French by the end. Arigato very much. This is a blank page. That's the front dusty cover. Sorry. Yeah. I knew that. I could see it here, actually. Second page. The first one is cracked. What is this one?

Yale University Library. I know that. That's like the, that's, it hasn't started yet. That's English. That's the, no, all right, cool, sorry. Here we are. Yeah, okay. Gibberish here. Gift of Hans P. Krauss. That's English. That's English again. Still English. We're still, it's the same sorry here we are yeah okay gibberish here gift of hans p kraus that's english that's english again we're still it's the same page i just realized sorry you won't be able to just read it naturally because it's not your natural language you uh either was fairy kit and i did pretty damn good at that i think you'll find i'm a half blood so this shit comes pretty naturally to me what the is that is that? It's all wrong. I can't make head or tail of this.

Now, this is weird. This is like a whole other language or something. Yeah, it is. I regret making this up at this point. This is insane. Yeah. That's kind of what I've been saying for the entire podcast. I could never read this in a million years.

Definitely fake. I can't make head or tail of it. This is borderline foreign there are some really interesting drawings here of plants where like the first couple plants i was like what the hell are you talking about that's a bush like this is that's like just a a weed very close up some of these plants are really weird like two branches coming out of tubes that look like they go down into the ground like arteries oh those are roots sorry just realized what that is um one of them just has a heart there's like

a beating heart in the ground and a tree like popping out of it there's a lot of weird stuff in this book we should definitely post these uh in the research notes because man i definitely and also there are a lot of pages of this lots Lots of pictures of plants. Oh my Christ, there is so much. It is my hope and dream that by outsourcing the Voynich manuscript itself in PDF form to our paranormal nation of listeners, which frankly ranks, if we're being honest, in the dozens, that we will be finally able to crack this code. Yeah. What the hell is that?

Have you seen this little circle thing that's some alchemy shit look at these little naked babies in the middle trying to summon flowers yeah it's weird because it also looks like a pencil sketch like they just like off the top of their dome yeah on the back of a napkin and print sticked it in there they were just like yeah page 28 we'll do the heart plant page 29 you know we got this little um you know this nice plant that kind of like grows underground page 30 baby demon summon signal how to summon a veggie baby yeah it gets really weird really fast but this podcast is not just for wild speculation and shitty podcasting where we just

talk about something we're looking at that our listeners can't see this is for coming down to hard and fast conclusions about whether things are paranormal or not so in the case of the voynich manuscript what is your conclusion i don't want to be the person to go around putting you know voynich manuscript words in people's mouths. But I think we're looking at a goddamn bonafide alien gray diary. Cool. Nothing about aliens in the book at all. Or grays. It's all plant-based, by the way. Stars? You think stars are gray-based?

There's planets, too. Yeah. Yeah. I've been beaten down so much i'm not gonna argue that planets that's my tactic is that the book so are you saying that you're gonna go on the line and claim that this ancient text is from paranormal origin all right you call my bluff i don't know what this is right i think this is an unsolved mystery for sure i don't think we have enough evidence to say it's paranormal i would agree with that i think that means this is a no today it's a no from me a double no on whether the voynich manuscript is a paranormal case. Definitely mysterious. It's one of the only cases where it's still completely wide open.

I don't think anyone has any conclusions on this. So I think that just about wraps it up for this particular case. But if you do have your own interpretations, your own theories on the Voynich manuscript, please send them into thisparanormallifepodcast at gmail.com. As I said throughout the episode, the show notes will be made available for this episode shortly on patreon.com forward slash this paranormal life where from just two bucks a month you can get access to the show notes to every episode and if you go a little

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all on this podcast but just chompy's in store now the new range of cereal available from to be eaten in the balls to be had the chompy's make everyday adventure keith's texting you i don't know why he's texting you how's he so fast how does he know when i've i've done it bad oh my god is he mad he's so pissed i'm not even mad've done it bad? Oh my God. Is he mad? He's so pissed. I'm not even mad at this point. I just want to know. I don't even, do you mind if I really quick, just like two minutes.

You're going to call him? Yeah. I have to really call this. Okay. I don't know. What's the time in North Korea? Holy shit. Keith.

Yeah. It's four in the morning, actually. Yeah. You have, he's, he's got a bug. What? He's got, he's bugged it we record the podcast why does he need to record us he knows he knows i f***ed it all right we can just re-record it it's not live yet it's not live yet keith we can read that's how the podcast works that's too much

i won't be able to pay rent if you dock it that much i don't think he knows what a podcast is key he signs like a loan shark at this point. Yeah, he hung up. He's really pissed about that thing, though. He's a criminal, I think. Well, he's a criminal, and I owe him a lot of money, which is a bad person to owe apparently a North Korean war criminal. Because I'll tell you, I don't think Keith is real name. Every week, we

like to shout out those who have supported us on Patreon right here in the show. Here we are. Let's go. Thank you to Lee Lombardi. Dale. Lee Lombardi Dale, a man as dangerous as the beverage himself. Itself.

He probably, this guy probably rides around in a motorcycle with no helmet. Exactly. Probably doesn't even tie his shoelaces and runs with scissors and knives. Maybe even no shoes for all we know. Exactly.

But still, scissors and knives. even no shoes for all we know exactly but still scissors and knives thank you for donating to the podcast much appreciated lee thank you too simply darren darren without you our pockets would be barren so we really appreciate you chucking a couple coins in the bucket of the paranormal peasants we can pay rent in the commune which obviously goes to us because we we own it but uh there's actually not a lot of people here at the minute so we keep raising taxes which docks our pay so it's this weird cycle of being poor and sad so again if you want to come to the Paranormal Cold Immune, definitely come check it out. You're welcome, Darren. Thank you too.

Loz B. I feel like for the first time, this donator has found a place where she belongs. What? She belongs. She belongs with us. And I feel like we belongs with her. So I think it's a good match. And I appreciate her support

thank you too leighton better late on never that's right we were closing the doors to the paranormal commune when leighton blocks it with the blade of his katana and he said room for one more welcome aboard like are you going to kill us? And that's right. There will be, I should have mentioned, there is going to be a samurai class within the commune. Absolutely. We're going to install an Edo period authentic Japanese class system. Absolutely. You will be assigned a class and you will have to stick to it

or else punishment by death, really. Exactly. They said it was irresponsible to build a small village with one public bathroom, 17 houses and 23 Benihana's. But we did it anyway. Thank you too.

Sophie Jonasson. That's right. Trophy Sophie has joined the Paranormal Commune. I believe she's just about top of her league in every sport she's turned her goddamn mitts to. Exactly. So hopefully we can enlist your skills for training up a crack team of Commune soldiers. I mean, you know, peacemakers. Cult soldiers.

Right. No, that's worse. Not that. Commune lovers, not fighters yeah who know how to fight though because you're gonna need to know how to fight exactly the outside not the inside so we know you we know we can count on you trophy sophie thank you too jordan baird jordan don't be scared there's a place for you and as we have described it is a place where conspiracy theorists samurai fans of benihana can all come together under one giant tin hat roof

and discuss the paranormal remember guys if you believe it, it's real. Welcome to the paranormal commune. Thank you too. Nathan Lane. Nathan Lane. I want to bowl right down you, Nathan. That sounded weirdly sexual. What I meant to say was, I want to bowl you all the way down the street, right into the doors of the paranormal commune. Make sure you get there day one, though, because that's tax day.

And that needs to pay for a lot of the deposits on the swords that we, I mean, we are talking dump trucks of historically period-correct samurai swords. That are just spewing on the floor now because we have nowhere to put them, frankly. It's all just Benihana's. We really need to work on the jingle for text day. Yeah. I think we might work on that. If anyone has a good jingle for that. Just sidebar, sidebar really quick.

I feel like we're painting the cult in a bad way. Just it doesn't sound that great. I think maybe we over the Benihana thing. I think that's a bit much. 23 might be too many. Might be too many. Might be too many. I don't know. I know a samurai can eat, but I don't know if they can eat that much.

I don't know if they'd even appreciate the fanfare. That actually seems like more of an insult to their samurai ways. They're quite humble people, and flicking a shrimp into your chef hat is probably like the biggest f*** you to a samurai. It could be. So let's just try and, let's keep it light. Let's big it up. Cut that though.

Make sure you cut. Of course. It's going to be great, man. I want to bring the bowling balls, Mr. Lane. What was his name? Mr. Lane. Mr. Lane. Bring the balls.

Come along. It's going to be great. Woo. Hell yeah. And thank you, lastly, but not leastly, to Joseph Kirk. Captain Kirk, welcome to the Paranormal Commune. Make sure you bring that SS Enterprise ship of yours, because we're going to be blasting through time, space,

and blasting you all the way back to the period of the samurai. The most mysterious time of all. That's right. We're going to take man, woman, and child upon the Enterprise. We've located a small but viable wormhole that we trust will take us back to 1500s Japan. Yeah. At this point, there is a 90 90 chance that's what it is we have a an astrophysicist on retainer here in the commune already and he assures us sensei mark also a samurai sensei mark believes it's totally possible so yeah you when you walk through the paranormal

gates if you are granted official license to wield the sword you're you're you're gifted the title of samurai every civilian in the paranormal commune is officially a samurai or ninja that's part of the fun figuring it out so that wraps up the uh shout outs for this week if you haven't heard your name shouted out just yet and you are a patreon supporter that's because your shout out is still coming we're getting to it so thanks for being patient thank you for listening to this week's episode i hope you enjoyed it remember to tune in next week for a brand new paranormal tale and in the meantime remember to live fast and die oh shit i always forget that one i think it's so eager to die skip it yeah yeah sorry live fast investigate i did it again sorry live fast investigate no die young if you believe it it's real