The Voynich Manuscript

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast

Believing the Bizarre | Paranormal Podcast

Society & Culture, Science, Comedy, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The Voynich Manuscript This week is all about the strange Voynich Manuscript. We explored how this mysterious 240-page medieval book, written entirely in an unknown language and filled with bizarre illustrations, has baffled scholars for over a century. From its discovery by rare book dealer Dr. Wilford M. Voynich in 1912 at a Jesuit college near Rome to its current home at Yale University, we traced the manuscript's fascinating journey through the hands of alchemists, occultists, and royalty. The book features drawings of unidentifiable plants, unusual star charts that don't quite match Earth's perspective, and peculiar images of naked women bathing in colored liquids—all accompanied by elegant, flowing text that no one has ever been able to decipher. We discussed the leading theories about the manuscript's origins, from the possibility that it was an elaborate hoax created by medieval forger Edward Kelly to sell to Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II, to the idea that it's simply a coded language whose key has been lost to time. We also explored the most intriguing theory: that this could be an alien travel journal, documenting unfamiliar plants, star charts from another vantage point, and perhaps even the abduction process involving those mysterious liquid-filled tubes. 🛸 ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Support Believing the Bizarre and get tons of extra content by joining our Patreon. 🛸 ⁠⁠Have a paranormal encounter or story you'd like told on the podcast? ⁠Submit it here.⁠ 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠For updates, news, and extra content, follow Believing the Bizarre on social media: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Shop Merch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: You can rep Believing the Bizarre and buy some unique merch 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠Want to send BTB something? Ship it here: 3570 Executive Drive, Suite 218, Union Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Did aliens leave behind an artifact?
0:07.0	Could an ancient book hold the answers to space travel?
0:10.0	What powerful messages are waiting for us behind the glass at Yale University?
0:15.0	Today we test the believability of the Voyage manuscript....of the Voyage manuscript. Welcome to Believing the Bazaar, where we dive into the unknown and the unusual.
0:47.2	And tell you whether or not we find it believable.
0:50.0	Oh boy.
0:50.7	Happy Tuesday, everybody.
0:52.1	New Tuesday, new episode. Lots of exciting stuff coming up. We are going to be at the Ohio Bigfoot Jamboree. Yeah. Saturday, October 4th in Ohio. Ada. I think it's Ada. Ada. Ada Wong, Resident 4. Original 2. Yeah, so we're going to do another festival.
1:12.4	Like we used to do a porch rocker in the past.
1:25.2	I'd like to do that again, by the way. Front Street. Yeah. Nightmare on Front Street. But yeah, if you are going to the Ohio Bigfoot Jamboree in Ohio, obviously it's in the title, we will be there. So come say hello. Yeah, we'll have a booth. A booth.
1:25.9	A boof.
1:30.5	We're also going to have our live Halloween episode coming up soon, which is crazy.
1:30.5	Very soon. Yeah, we'll have a booth. We'll have a booth. A boof. We're also going to have our live Halloween episode coming up soon, which is crazy.
1:31.3	Very soon.
1:38.5	October 18th at 9.30 Eastern. It'll be live. It'll be streaming. We'll get a graphic out with all that information.
2:01.3	But there'll be games, trivia, obviously an on-site episode based on whatever topic it is. It's Charlie's year this year. Very much on site. So I'm really excited about the episode on Halloween. But I'm also excited with this episode today. Not that this, not that that was overshadowed by this at all, I promise. But I am very excited about going to the location. It's outside of the Eastern time zone. So that's pretty crazy.
2:02.9	So before I start an episode today,
2:05.8	I do want to thank our special patrons who joined. Special patrons.
2:06.6	Special patrons.
2:07.1	The special patrons.
2:08.3	We have Matthew, Chalise, and Summer.
2:11.8	Thank you for joining.
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