Episode 250: The Voynich Manuscript Conspiracy

Let's Get Haunted

Comedy

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 90 minutes

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For over 600 years, a book has existed that no one can read. Not historians. Not cryptographers. Not even artificial intelligence. This week on Let’s Get Haunted, we are entering the world of the Voynich Manuscript, a 15th century text filled with plants that do not exist, constellations that match no known sky, diagrams of strange biological tubes, and pages of naked women bathing in green liquid. The language has never been identified. The author is unknown. Every attempt to decode it has failed. Is it an alien field guide, a forbidden medical grimoire, an occult text disguised as science, or the most elaborate hoax in human history? We break down the darkest theories, the AI translation attempts, and the possibility that this manuscript was never meant to be understood at all. Because if this book is a joke, it is a masterpiece. And if it is not, then someone in the 1400s knew something we were never supposed to know. TIME STAMPS 00:00:00 HOOK & INTRO 00:06:04 AN UNREADABLE BOOK 00:15:22 BETTER HELP AD 00:17:57 BIO TUBES AND ALIEN ANATOMY 00:37:12 HISTORY OF THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT 00:56:00 ALIEN BIOLOGY OR HAUNTED DOODLES 01:10:00 WOMEN’S BODIES AS TOOLS 01:30:00 SECRET PASSWORD AND DONOR SHOUTOUTS! THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED!! Find out more about this week’s advertisers below! Find support and feel lighter in therapy—sign up and get 10% off at https://betterhelp.com/gethaunted #ad *CHECK OUT ALY’S SOLO PODCAST!*: https://instagram.com/frightsizepod READ & LISTEN TO NAT’S BOOK! Amazon Kindle https://a.co/78hzQn9 Spotify Audiobook http://bit.ly/44DuQ90 Other Important Stuff: Join the Patreon today! https://patreon.com/letsgethaunted LGH Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/letsgethaunted Buy Our Merch: https://www.letsgethaunted.com Check out the photo dump for this week’s episode: https://www.instagram.com/letsgethaunted Send us fan mail: PO BOX 1658 Camarillo, CA 93011 Send us your listener stories: www.letsethaunted.com *SPECIAL THANKS TO RYAN FOR HELP WITH EDITING~ SLAY* —— SOURCES: [1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Equivalencies-of-Voynich-Manuscript-Characters-with-Arabic-Letters_fig3_368991190 [2]https://www.voynich.nu/illustr.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com [3]https://youtu.be/CSYXCBqGcZo?si=ZwSHTS2izRbYjIWc [4]https://www.history.com/articles/voynich-manuscript-mystery [5]https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2002046 MUSIC: [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6UU2FyLHiw KEYWORDS :Voynich Manuscript, Voynich Manuscript explained, Voynich Manuscript theories, Voynich Manuscript decoded, has the Voynich Manuscript been translated, Voynich Manuscript alien theory, Voynich Manuscript witchcraft, Voynich Manuscript plants, Voynich Manuscript zodiac pages, Voynich Manuscript bathing women, Voynich Manuscript herbal section, Voynich Manuscript cosmology diagrams, Voynich Manuscript conspiracy, Voynich Manuscript hoax, Voynich Manuscript Francis Bacon, Voynich Manuscript AI translation, medieval coded manuscripts, mysterious medieval book, unsolved historical mysteries, alien field guide theory, encrypted ancient texts, occult manuscripts, 15th century cryptography, paranormal history podcast, conspiracy theory podcast, strange historical artifacts, forbidden books in history, mysterious botanical illustrations, haunted manuscripts, esoteric symbolism, Renaissance occultism, secret societies medieval Europe, weird medieval art, ROGER BACON, alchemy, ancient aliens. Alien code Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Sherlock Holmes.
0:02.0	It's an unusual name.
0:03.0	Introducing Young Sherlock, a new Guy Ritchie series.
0:07.0	What game are we playing today?
0:09.0	Discover the origins.
0:10.0	It's cleaving. Those days are surely behind me.
0:12.0	Of crime's most iconic mind.
0:14.0	There has been a break-in.
0:17.0	Astoned. You should be a detective.
0:19.0	Starring Hero finds Tiffin, Donald Finn and Colin Firth.
0:22.5	If you start wearing a hat like that, I will no longer be friends with you.
0:25.9	Young Sherlock, new original series. Watch now only on Prime Video.
0:30.6	In 1912, a rare book dealer and antique collector opened a crate in Italy and found a medieval manuscript no one on earth
0:42.3	could read. It wasn't written in any known language. It doesn't match any known alphabet. And the
0:51.3	illustrations? Haunting. Unforgetable.
0:56.0	Naked women floating around in green liquid-filled pods.
1:00.0	Strange biological diagrams.
1:04.0	Plants that do not exist on this planet.
1:08.0	Star maps that do not match our sky. For over a hundred years, cryptographers,
1:17.0	codebreakers, and even World War II intelligence analysis have tried to decipher it. No one could
1:25.3	read it. Even today, AI can't crack it. The FBI tried and failed too.
1:32.9	The Vatican owns copies. Presumably they haven't either. So here's the most haunted theory. What if
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