On This Day October 25
On this day in 1984, Günther Stoll—a man plagued by paranoid fears—abruptly wrote the cryptic [...]
On This Day October 18
On this day in 1970, a Robert Bennett and his fiancé were talking quietly in [...]
The Legend of Pigman
I love a good urban legend. Whether it's the Bunny Man, the Sultan Murder House, [...]
Codex Seraphinus
The Codex Seraphinianus is less a matter of mystery than a matter of curiosity—a work [...]
Coptic Handbook of Ritual Power
The Coptic Handbook of Ritual Power, also known as the Egyptian Handbook of Ritual Power, [...]
The Rohonc Codex
The Rohonc Codex is one of history’s most baffling manuscripts. Discovered in the Hungarian town [...]
The Smithfield Decretals
How do you make a dense, mind-numbingly boring text on medieval canon law more engaging? [...]
The Voynich Manuscript
No discussion of strange and ancient tomes would be complete without mentioning the most enigmatic [...]
The Book of Soyga
The Book of Soyga, also known as Aldaraia sive Soyga vocor, is a mysterious manuscript [...]
The Codex Gigas
Few artifacts from the medieval world inspire as much fascination and speculation as the Codex [...]