531 // The Voynich Enigma w/Jillian Foley
Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries
Crawlspace Media
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🗓️ 22 June 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Tim here today with Lance. Lance, how are you today? |
| 0:32.6 | I'm doing fantastic today, Tim. We have finally brought a guest on this show that can satisfy this curiosity itch that we've had for a little while that involves this very strange piece of, I guess we're going to call it literature at this point. |
| 0:49.3 | But we get into this conversation with the very fascinating guests that we have on. |
| 0:54.0 | And I think a lot of people are going to be really engaged in what we're talking about here. |
| 0:58.3 | Because it's kind of relevant to things that are happening in today's world. |
| 1:01.7 | We bring up the NSA, for example, in connection to this like nearly 600 year old manuscript that is a subject of the conversation. But Tim, the subject of this |
| 1:12.9 | intro really should be about your mood. How are you today? I'm doing well. I'd hate to make the |
| 1:19.1 | subject about my mood because it's not as interesting as the story that we're covering here today. |
| 1:24.8 | So in this interview, we have Jillian Foley on, and |
| 1:29.3 | Jillian's got a really great background. She's got a PhD from the University of Chicago's |
| 1:34.3 | conceptual and historical studies of science program, and that really kind of makes her an expert |
| 1:40.1 | to discuss this Voynich manuscript that is full of mysteries everywhere you look, Lance. |
| 1:48.0 | And Gillian actually wrote an article about the Voynich manuscript a few years ago. |
| 1:53.9 | It's called The Strange Quest to Crack the Voynich Code. |
| 1:58.1 | And it's really about how many people over the years and centuries have been |
| 2:03.4 | sort of obsessed with trying to figure out this mystery that is the Voynich manuscript. And it's |
| 2:10.1 | really interesting because as famous and mysterious as the Voynich manuscript is, it was never |
| 2:15.4 | valued at anything significant. It was never sold for |
| 2:18.2 | anything significant. People tried to sell it, but that didn't work out. People would buy it for |
| 2:23.1 | cheap, thinking they could sell it big. But I think because the mystery is so dense and the code |
| 2:28.4 | itself has never been cracked, it just never garnered a high price tag, but it does garner a high, high level of interest. |
| 2:36.6 | There are groups that have formed to try to solve this. |
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