Voynich Manuscript Decoded | The Mysterious Book Finally Solved?

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  • čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
  • For 600 years the Voynich Manuscript has stumped scholars, cryptographers, physicists, and computer scientists. Now, a researcher in Germany has claimed to have finally decoded the most mysterious book in the world.
    The Voynich Manuscript is a 240-page medieval codex written in an indecipherable language, full of bizarre drawings of strange plants, astrological symbols and... lots of... naked women.
    The Voynich Manuscript defies classification and has also defied comprehension. Cryptologists, FBI operatives, respected medievalists, mathematic and scientific scholars, skilled linguists... they've all been left stumped. Even Alan Turing took a crack at it and came up short.
    It's written from left to right and although it's never been "officially" deciphered, there's definitely a structure to it. Researchers have concluded that the language has 20 to 25 distinct letters but nobody has been able to figure out how the letters fit together.
    According to cryptanalyst Elizabeth Friedman in 1962, anyone who attempts to translate it is "doomed to utter frustration."
    Let's find out why.

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  • @aadamm
    @aadamm Před 2 lety +1069

    I'm a new sub. keep at it. you are getting noticed for your great content! interesting, funny, and Knowledgeable!

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  Před 2 lety +113

      Welcome aboard, Aadam! And thanks for the kind words. The algorithm has NOT been kind to this channel. But with your help, we can overcome.

    • @vmwindustries
      @vmwindustries Před rokem

      @@TheWhyFiles It's a teenager wishing he could write books, so the young teen made it up. The bathing is different herbs in the baths, that is why it's different colours. It was a con prop to rip people off. Show all the illiterate a book, and pretended that they read so they can rip people off. They say a book once when getting medical advice for their lord. So they faked being a doctor. What do you think? Does this make more sense?

    • @nb9403
      @nb9403 Před rokem +25

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    • @billyfoster5904
      @billyfoster5904 Před rokem +14

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    • @No_One_0707
      @No_One_0707 Před rokem +7

      Actually bro

  • @dennisgriffith9217
    @dennisgriffith9217 Před rokem +1161

    Can you please do "The Book of Enoch"? I like how you tell the myths and then give the facts. Thanks

  • @gretzkyyy5645
    @gretzkyyy5645 Před 3 lety +466

    Lessons learned from this video:
    - Google translate everything
    - we should all write gibberish on paper in hopes of intriguing the minds of future cryptopgraphers

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  Před 3 lety +79

      Hahaha! I seriously think the book is meaningless but the human brain does not like unsolvable riddles. We. Must. Know.

    • @HecklefishMoriarty
      @HecklefishMoriarty Před 3 lety +18

      You also learned fish from Brooklyn can talk.

    • @gretzkyyy5645
      @gretzkyyy5645 Před 3 lety +11

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      @HecklefishMoriarty Před 3 lety +13

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    • @planexshifter
      @planexshifter Před 3 lety +8

      I already wrote a religious text and hid it.
      One day, my religion will sweep across the land!

  • @NPazable
    @NPazable Před rokem +14

    The idea of it being an ancient medical text would hold water considering doctors to this day can't write legibly

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    @joelbrew75 Před 7 měsíci +40

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      @rushslayer8647 Před 6 měsíci

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      @TheSweetswed Před 4 měsíci

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  • @monot00nz
    @monot00nz Před rokem +53

    There's a Turkish father and son duo who believe a person basically wrote a farmer's almanac in old Turkish. However, the author wasn't exactly literate and had to phonetically spell out the words. So, imagine writing words based on how they sound and not how they're actually spelled. Which makes sense as it has a clear linguistic pattern, but also seems like gibberish.
    It's the most convincing theory out there.

    • @miguelcastaneda7257
      @miguelcastaneda7257 Před měsícem +1

      Well our USA English is actually English slang

    • @alphagt62
      @alphagt62 Před měsícem

      On a mystery TV show, they claimed that an Artificial Intelligence code breaking computer said it was just gibberish. Certain patterns occur way too often to be any actual language.

    • @audrawells1383
      @audrawells1383 Před 24 dny +2

      Lol this makes me think of that viral video of that lady calling out names at a college graduation ceremony. The names were spelled phonetically for some reason, and the lady didn't know that, so she was pronouncing regular names like Thomas, and Elizabeth, in super weird ways.

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    @rehab_reject Před rokem +83

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    @grin_of_grimmsnarl1333 Před 9 měsíci +12

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      @rushslayer8647 Před 6 měsíci

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  • @wesleywashington1251
    @wesleywashington1251 Před 11 měsíci +69

    Dude!! If I could research a bunch of topics as well as you've done I'd be VERY proud of myself!! Thanks for doing what you do!! You're really making a difference!!

  • @vast634
    @vast634 Před 3 lety +677

    Would be a bit sophisticated for a medieval hoax: making up an alphabet, writing random nonsense in it, but keeping it consistent and having statistical features of a natural language. Looks like someone very much knew what he wanted to write.

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  Před 3 lety +112

      Really great point, Rudolf. When I think of this as a hoax -- and I'm not fully sure -- I'm thinking more along the lines of: someone had found a way to profit off of this book by inferring, or outright selling, it as more than what it really is. What do you think this is? Legit?

    • @vast634
      @vast634 Před 3 lety +154

      @@TheWhyFiles Could be someone who lived in an area with a different spoken language than he learned as a child. Learned to write, but used his native language. He could have further mangled the words enough to make them only easy to read to him. (there is that trick, that words where the letter position are shuffled can still be read, when reading it quickly ... as long as you are trained in the alphabet that is)
      The contents might be just a collection of contemporary ideas in astrology, alchemy, herbalism, medicine. Stuff that might have been controversial enough (inquisition and such), to keep it in that cipher. I would not expect some groundbreaking knowledge from it, once its translated. At most, a nice tasting recipe for a tea.

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  Před 3 lety +73

      OK, you might actually be on to something here.

    • @vercingetorixwulf9298
      @vercingetorixwulf9298 Před 2 lety +23

      I understand some of the pictures. That's where answers lie.

    • @justinm2697
      @justinm2697 Před 2 lety +22

      @@vercingetorixwulf9298 That's assuming the pictures relate to the text.

  • @BENZ007
    @BENZ007 Před 2 lety +111

    Great video, I saw a tv show last night on this manuscript which brought me here. I wonder if the images were ever given or shown to truly insane people to look at, maybe a rational mind cannot see what an insane mind can. Incredible mystery.

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  Před 2 lety +17

      I hope someone solves it one day. This thing keeps me awake at night!

    • @williamwhareaorere8994
      @williamwhareaorere8994 Před 2 lety +7

      That's true .I was in the presence of a Dalai monki ask what happens when we die 20 min later he shared what he understood..another 20 min went bye then he ask me what I thought happens..I said well my younger brother he banged his head when a child he's not all there a bit insane but he thinks we started as a thought and we end as a thought.?. But like I say a madman 😊

    • @deathbydeviceable
      @deathbydeviceable Před rokem +1

      I feel he was trying to describe the micro-verse, or when the beginning was still visible in time through a telescope when everything was still in chaos before order and the elder gods hid it through the big bang

    • @JTA1961
      @JTA1961 Před rokem

      Crazy like a fox...

    • @StarDreamMemories
      @StarDreamMemories Před 10 dny

      ......I'm crazy
      Yes there is Passion flower in it,
      And pokeweed (a berry native Americans used for rheumatoid arthritis but today we consider poisonous). The pokeweed leaf displayed in the pages of the Voinich manuscript are incorrect. I know bc this plant is plentiful in my area.
      I've watched a video that turns the pages of the entire book. However the book in the video is a recreation....so who the hell truly knows. The actual Voinich is in a library in a University in the US or so that video states.

  • @elizabethcayless307
    @elizabethcayless307 Před rokem +8

    By far my favourite channel on you tube, Funny, informative, factual, i haven't watch a dull one yet.

  • @Transilvanian90
    @Transilvanian90 Před rokem +279

    I wonder if it's possible to digitize the book entirely and then try to see if an AI can use its linguistic database to try and find either a language that it matches, or at least try to find patterns in the writing; or, failing that, to see if it might be a combination of languages.

    • @Inferno957841236
      @Inferno957841236 Před rokem +10

      Indeed

    • @petitenoire
      @petitenoire Před rokem +18

      I’m pretty sure there is at least a part that is digitised. When I heard about manuscript for the first time I’ve seen some scanned pages online

    • @ferdinandodemartino5332
      @ferdinandodemartino5332 Před rokem +28

      @@petitenoire You can find the entire book as PDF online

    • @imdeaded
      @imdeaded Před rokem +21

      The AI will recruit a human to decifer it.

    • @andrewsilbaugh5873
      @andrewsilbaugh5873 Před rokem +8

      You would think that the easiest thing to do would be to start with the star charts, and translate from there first. Unfortunately without a key, to this code, this book is more than likely an interesting paperweight.

  • @miguekechague538
    @miguekechague538 Před 3 lety +1530

    Here before this guy blows up

  • @jenniferfields10
    @jenniferfields10 Před rokem +362

    I wonder if they've considered this book to be the work of an alchemist. In the early days of alchemy, practitioners were known to not only keep detailed journals of their experiments, but also to record them in a secret code language so competitors couldn't steal and duplicate their work. They would form tight-knit pods no more than 4 alchemists in the general area. The small group would each learn the language so they could safely communicate only each other and still keep their research safe. The time frame fits, as does the herbs and flowers illustrated. I think this manuscript may be an alchemist's journal...Not that I can do anything about it. I'm just wondering if any of the super-smart people looked at that angle.

    • @kraangprime7067
      @kraangprime7067 Před rokem +48

      I think this is a very plausible answer tbh

    • @Chris-es3wf
      @Chris-es3wf Před rokem +49

      Yes many have considered that. The problem is that no cryptographers have been able to decipher it. A language that could be learned like this needs a pattern else would be impossible to learn. Any pattern the human brain can learn would be decipherable with brute force via computers.

    • @kittycat8222
      @kittycat8222 Před rokem +25

      @@Chris-es3wf perhaps they agreed prior to use three different codes throughout the book so none would match? That would be a lot to remember but in those days they had the time to study.

    • @GeorgeZimmermen
      @GeorgeZimmermen Před rokem +45

      It’s a guitar tab book for 80’s hair metal

    • @megs4193
      @megs4193 Před rokem +2

      I've thought that since I found out about it ✌️.

  • @lovejackson2830
    @lovejackson2830 Před 5 měsíci +7

    Today I learned that if I had watched this 3 years ago, I would have known I was 3 blocks away from the Vonyich Manuscript. The timing of finding this awesome show. I can't get enough! Thank you for presenting it in such a gently inclusive way. Brilliant!

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    @caitlinallen8400 Před rokem +5

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    @Steve_V1066 Před 2 lety +133

    Thank you so much for the great content! I've been binge watching all of your videos over the last few days and am more and more impressed by the work you do. I would love to see longer videos! I am always stunned by how you can out produce shows that are on the History channel, Discovery+ , etc. I've been sharing your channel everywhere and can't wait to see what's next for you.

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  Před 2 lety +20

      What a great comment, Steve. Thanks for the kind, supportive words!

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      @RichardBramlett Před rokem +3

      Agreed. I'd really love a deep dive into a specific topic, though I understand the time and effort required to do so is less than ideal. I guess I'm just selfish that way 😉

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  • @dunningkruger3774
    @dunningkruger3774 Před rokem +73

    New sub as well. I’m 65 yrs and have an old library of...just about everything you cover. This episode reminded me of a book my brother found in 1981. It was 100 years old and called OAHSPE. A "channeling" by Angels through a Dentist in Boston. It is....very interesting. Written in the times of the Ok Corral, it describes nuclear powered anti gravity spaceships, talks of men and Angels, and has chapters written by Thor, Osiris, etc, who all say that "they were once mortals". There is a section on science that is interesting to say the least. My collection.of antique books is extensive, and I've found no other book that was "less verbose" in explaining our purpose. No "Steiner-Blavatsky" nonsense with confusing dialogue, just simple history and future combined. You...cannot read this book "overnight", but I promise you will be intrigued. Those adherents to the dogmatic religions will find this off putting.....but those who are open minded and spiritual will have difficulty putting it down. Thanks for the great show, and I hope someday you could do a number on this...as it has done a number on me. BTW- this is the first mention of the creation of planets and galaxies by centrifugal and frictional force I have seen. "The Dust Devil is the sign of how the planets and galaxies were created, driving the elements to a fiery center"(sic)

    • @Jimschrbr
      @Jimschrbr Před rokem +8

      That book that you referenced, it was the basis for the movie "Cowboys Vs. Aliens"

    • @dunningkruger3774
      @dunningkruger3774 Před rokem +9

      @@Jimschrbr I liked that movie. Where did you hear that? I would think it more closely parallels the writings of Zecharia Sitchin in his book "The 12th Planet". He was all about the Sumerian Annunaki mining gold on Earth with humans as slaves to do the heavy lifting.

    • @dunningkruger3774
      @dunningkruger3774 Před rokem +9

      Just read the Wiki entry on the movie Cowboys and Aliens and I as right (for once). It directly mentions Sitchin- "The aliens were loosely based on the Anunnaki gods of Zecharia Sitchin's interpretation of the Babylonian religion, who have a distinct interest in gold."

    • @robertmaxwell3220
      @robertmaxwell3220 Před rokem +1

      ​@@dunningkruger3774 best electrical conductor

    • @revabbyjoovitsky5152
      @revabbyjoovitsky5152 Před rokem +1

      @@robertmaxwell3220 A lot of gold domes in Israel.
      Aviva in Akko

  • @mikiesnaxx4604
    @mikiesnaxx4604 Před rokem +15

    You covered this topic better than anyone else. I learned SO MUCH MORE than I had learned before & this is a topic that interests me greatly. I heard one of your writers on Coast to Coast(I was already a sub). Great researchers & great writers & great narrators & great Hecklefish make this channel Super Duper Informative & Entertaining. Immediately took the top spot on my favorites list.❤🎉🐠

    • @trentosborn0990
      @trentosborn0990 Před rokem

      Look into the homunculus and I like mind unveiled they have a long form in depth covering of this

  • @bradziegel6561
    @bradziegel6561 Před 5 měsíci +4

    Your humor is amazing and the timing is top notch, keep up your incredible work.

  • @cahg3871
    @cahg3871 Před rokem +31

    Whoever wrote that book had the neatest hand writing I have ever seen.What’s even more amazing is when you consider it was done with an inkwell and quill.

    • @robertstrickland2184
      @robertstrickland2184 Před rokem +3

      Also it appears to be in a pattern. The video it's self says that there were 25 different "inscriptions".

  • @aswinvos4589
    @aswinvos4589 Před 2 lety +275

    How does this guy only have 7K subs? Stumbled on this guy when searching for the manuscript and SUBSCRIBED straight away. Hilarious content, very educational, nice atmosphere on the background... Talking fish 😂! You've earned yourself a new fan

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  Před 2 lety +23

      Thanks for the kind words, Aswin! Glad you found the channel!

    • @aswinvos4589
      @aswinvos4589 Před 2 lety +7

      @@TheWhyFiles you're welcome! I'm very happy to see a small CZcamsr whit a high production value. My personal tip to grow a bit faster, put content out more frequent!
      The algorithm loves a channel that's getting views & making very regular content!

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      Great suggestion! I'd love to do YT full-time but I have to pay the bills. ;-)

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      @@TheWhyFiles I totally understand and respect that. It's just that regular content gets favored by YT and the algorithm

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  • @oldcaptainjayyoutube2491
    @oldcaptainjayyoutube2491 Před 2 lety +78

    I recall having a conversation with an old sage once and this book came up. He laughed and said it was nothing particularly special, he told me this :
    There was once a Saudi Prince that had a harem, the girls he kept were not allowed to speak with each other and the only thing they were allowed was literature. They however devised a way to communicate. Alike pig-Latin, they had a type of secret written formula which they used in this book. The pictures are more a type of graffiti to throw off the guards that would check for messages which would have resulted in a punishment.
    The writings are more of a shared diary between the women which would be homeopathic remedies for headaches, menstrual cramps/pains and just things they had seen or dreams they had. There is nothing mysterious or magical to be found in it and alike pig-Latin, unless you knew it, there was no dictionary to decipher it.
    Just thought I'd share what I heard.

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  Před 2 lety +37

      This is actually a fascinating and very logical theory, Cap. Great comment!

    • @TLEawareness
      @TLEawareness Před 2 lety +13

      That’s a really interesting theory but my question is wouldn’t there be different penmanship? Maybe they had one author?

    • @LindysEpiphany
      @LindysEpiphany Před rokem +16

      I was thinking it was a specialized language from some group, maybe a cult. But your comment makes a lot of sense and answers why there are all the women throughout. Its also truth that harem women were made to be silent. The plants are probably recipes, remedies, and tinctures used in that time.
      This is the most plausible answer I have found for this enigma. I like it!👍

    • @Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman
      @Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman Před rokem +2

      @@LindysEpiphany same

    • @kellikelli4413
      @kellikelli4413 Před rokem +2

      Very believable explanation 👍

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    @Chri710 Před rokem +7

    I love this channel, I get to learn about new things or new information about things I already have heard of. Plus the dynamic between you two and the movie references are great!

  • @worldsgreatestimpressionis6462
    @worldsgreatestimpressionis6462 Před 10 měsíci +5

    Leonardo DaVinci was known to be a jokester often painting realistic coins on steps and watching people try to pick them up. A candidate?

  • @hiriasbloodweaver8593
    @hiriasbloodweaver8593 Před 10 měsíci +7

    Imagine writing your diary in your own fantasy language along with drawing some of the stuff you've dreamt only for people 500 years later to try to decipher it.

  • @kurtkyre
    @kurtkyre Před rokem +67

    I am impressed at the level of research that goes into the episodes. Keep up the great work!

    • @hellboundrubber4448
      @hellboundrubber4448 Před 11 měsíci +1

      He said it was gibberish. Ya i'm impressed with that scientific assessment and evidence. Just because he couldn't figure out what the language is, he concludes it must be nonsense. sure

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      @adambellshaw3587 Před rokem

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    • @rushslayer8647
      @rushslayer8647 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Please go watch the crop circle episode. It will change your life.

  • @bellabird
    @bellabird Před 9 měsíci +1

    Great stuff. Always look forward to your videos. 😊

  • @AndrewJohnson-oy8oj
    @AndrewJohnson-oy8oj Před 24 dny +3

    Anyone who grew up as a child with ADHD who had a personal notebook has no doubt as to what the Voynich Manuscript is.

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    @crittycothran6271 Před 2 lety +21

    Really glad i found this channel, very professional, interesting, well put together and all together entertaining! Thought provoking and humorous at the same time.. you are really headed for great things regarding your yt career! Congrats and thanks for the content

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  Před 2 lety +4

      Thanks for joining our crazy little community, Critty!

  • @perfmr2
    @perfmr2 Před 3 lety +11

    Found your channel about a hour ago with this video, subscribed and now on a binge watch. Great content so far.

  • @MichaelJMMulligan
    @MichaelJMMulligan Před 10 měsíci +1

    I absolutely love you guys- fantastic episode and seriously so funny! Perfect treat and treatment balance.

  • @kaneandable187
    @kaneandable187 Před rokem

    Ive heard of all of these stories before but i cant stop watching this channel. I found it only a couple of weeks ago. Very Entertaining

  • @facetious8727
    @facetious8727 Před rokem +26

    AJ you are such an amazing person! This is literally the best channel on youtube. Not only do you cover the coolest of topics, but your non-biased delivery is so refreshing, Just spitting facts, my dude! Hecklefish is the best idea in the history of EVER. Peace in :D

  • @bhope13
    @bhope13 Před rokem +281

    I love that he discusses the conspiracy theories, but only presents evidence. He doesn't try to convince you of anything, but lets you draw your own conclusions

    • @theurbanthirdhomestead
      @theurbanthirdhomestead Před rokem +9

      Not exactly. There's quite a bit that he says that is not factual, imo.

    • @youcantbeatk7006
      @youcantbeatk7006 Před rokem +6

      @@theurbanthirdhomestead He literally said that it's all disproved though.

    • @lostpopcorns
      @lostpopcorns Před rokem +4

      @@youcantbeatk7006 oh when he says that, then it must be true!

    • @youcantbeatk7006
      @youcantbeatk7006 Před rokem +1

      @@lostpopcorns Read.

    • @lostpopcorns
      @lostpopcorns Před rokem +3

      @@youcantbeatk7006 Think.

  • @teopsjon8180
    @teopsjon8180 Před 9 měsíci +9

    I am going to start my Voynich Manuscript now. Maybe in a few hundred years, it will baffled scientists too.

  • @pqthias
    @pqthias Před 8 měsíci

    this is so funny, but in a good way. I really needed this! really enjoyed it! keep up the good work !! 😊

  • @kylefortner8709
    @kylefortner8709 Před 2 lety +93

    Between the illustrations, the structure and time it'd take to construct as well as the fact that not one single error was made on any of the pages makes it highly unlikely to be anything less than a purposeful and well considered work.

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  Před 2 lety +26

      Even if it was some kind of scam, it was a beautifully rendered scam. It's flawless.

    • @kylefortner8709
      @kylefortner8709 Před 2 lety +20

      @@TheWhyFiles if it were a scam it'd be the greatest scam in history. Some ultra talented person got lost to history.

    • @mahiwagangpilipinas8976
      @mahiwagangpilipinas8976 Před rokem +1

      One of the first objectives of a scam is not to get found out. You wouldn't believe how some scammers will go through to get their thing going.

    • @kylefortner8709
      @kylefortner8709 Před rokem +5

      @@mahiwagangpilipinas8976 at the time this was created it'd be a total nightmare to fake.

    • @jasonsmith8401
      @jasonsmith8401 Před rokem +2

      Oh you have to do is look at it in a mirror whoever wrote the book that wrote it from looking at it through a mirror that’s why it looks backwards

  • @90210julius
    @90210julius Před 10 měsíci

    I love your channel, awesome content and very well researched and edited!
    Hey algorithm, work your magic!

  • @chrisfisher1625
    @chrisfisher1625 Před rokem

    This channel has quickly become one of my favorites. I can watch it forever

  • @alexg519
    @alexg519 Před 3 lety +35

    Loved the video, also really loved the Lebowski and Dogma movie references....

  • @TLEawareness
    @TLEawareness Před 2 lety +17

    As someone with temporal lobe epilepsy and can have minor visual hallucinations (like Alice in wonderland syndrome) and audible hallucinations (sometimes voice like sounds) are just a drop in the bucket of things the brain can do during a seizure or other types of psychosis. Could the writer have been trying to make their own language? That wouldn’t explain the reasoning behind the drawings and you’d think the writer would have made some sort of translation if the writer ever wanted it passed on and used by the masses. One of the symptoms of temporal lobe epilepsy is hypergraphia. Also my brain just about makes up its own world before I actually black out. When going into one while reading the letters turn into hieroglyphics. I get Jamais vu and the feeling that I’m someplace I’ve never been or never seen and that there is someone or something that isn’t happy I’m there. I’m usually filled with intense horror and fear. I’ve had a couple of ecstatic seizures though where I felt like I was being pumped full of energy and I was about to figure out the universe and why I’m here all before blacking out. Obviously I’m not trying to push that the writer had a type of epilepsy but more so just a type of psychosis/hypergraphia? Or possibly hypergraphy? I mean someone/people had to create each handwritten language used at some point in history.

  • @heatherhuggzskullz4211

    FANTASTIC job of shedding new light on old mystery. This channel deserves an award. Stay real.

  • @joeroberts-entertainment
    @joeroberts-entertainment Před 10 měsíci

    Love the show. Great stuff. Keep it coming.

  • @juliao1255
    @juliao1255 Před rokem +4

    I subscribed at the first video I watched, and am now sucked into binging this channel. I am hooked on your honesty, and humor-to-seriousness ratio. I am especially impressed with the perfect-for-the-moment movie snippets you toss into your video salads. I just hope I'm not up all night now. (In my best deep voiced radio guy imitation, considering I am a medium tone voiced woman: "Damn you, Why Guy!")

  • @ace21091
    @ace21091 Před rokem +8

    Love this so much, this is so far my favorite episode. The comedy with the two of ya and everything else. Thank you

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  Před rokem +1

      Very nice of you to say, ace. I'm grateful for you.

  • @dfortin0011
    @dfortin0011 Před rokem +1

    this channel is brilliant...im hooked

  • @percarlemil
    @percarlemil Před 10 měsíci

    Think your channel is very Knowledgeable, leaning new stufF every time i see it, allmost every day since i found it keep it up and be save LOVE FROM DENMARK

  • @sarser8089
    @sarser8089 Před rokem +6

    Hahaha i initially stopped watching these videos because of hecklefish, but i have to admit its growing on me. The joke at 2:40 made me laugh out loud to a point where im pretty sure my neighbours heard me in the middle of the night. Love the vids, keep em coming, much love.

  • @AM-br4ix
    @AM-br4ix Před rokem +7

    I had forgotten all about this mysterious book!
    Thanks for sharing! You guys Rock!!!

  • @stevecostello7267
    @stevecostello7267 Před 9 měsíci

    Great content, love the channel.. keep up the great work..

  • @echeaz
    @echeaz Před 6 měsíci +2

    One of my favorite things about the newer episodes is when AJ lowers himself on the chair. Can't explain it but it's super geeky and I love it! Maybe because it reminds me of the pneumatic drafting chairs I used back in school. Fun times!

  • @linds1571
    @linds1571 Před rokem +4

    I love your channel. I keep coming back to it every night and listening to more and more. So great.

  • @davefortenberry366
    @davefortenberry366 Před rokem +3

    I absolutely love sitting down at the end of my day, relax and watch your videos. LOVE Hecklefish(Do you voice him?). Always super interesting and you do a fantastic job with presentation and comments. Thank you for all you do.

  • @mariaofarrell7tsavororite12-7

    He was a male human fascinated with plants, stars, creating his own language and staring at women in bath tubs.☺️

    • @MusgraveRitual
      @MusgraveRitual Před rokem

      That's what I think. Probably a horny medieval teenager invented his own language to lust after naked women and not risk being burned at the stake. Plants were just a diversion "here I am...studying Botanics! Nothing to see..." 😁

  • @jaredtharp1341
    @jaredtharp1341 Před 6 měsíci

    They won’t let me put notifications on all?! Huge fan! Started watching last month. Hooked

  • @darrylrump2419
    @darrylrump2419 Před rokem +8

    What a refreshing program. This needs to be on TV. Way more deserving than a lot of programming on Discovery Plus and other streaming services. Keep up the good work. I award you a big thumbs up.

    • @kathymcmc
      @kathymcmc Před rokem +1

      I doubt Union rules will let Hecklefish on TV.

    • @xymoriintus
      @xymoriintus Před rokem

      What an idiotic idea. Do you not understand more people watch CZcams compared to all the other streaming services

    • @ingridgallagher1029
      @ingridgallagher1029 Před rokem

      No, tv would ruin it like it ruins everything now a days.

    • @rushslayer8647
      @rushslayer8647 Před 6 měsíci

      Please go wash the crop circle episode it’s absolutely insane

  • @shaunhayward
    @shaunhayward Před 2 lety +10

    Came for the Voynich Manuscript, stayed for the HeckleFish

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  Před 2 lety +3

      This is so funny, Shaun. In my YT comments dashboard, the comment directly above yours is: "That fish is the reason this channel failed"

  • @Kim-hn4xk
    @Kim-hn4xk Před 9 měsíci

    I like your videos,..had to get used to them initially but informative..Thxs..🥀

  • @bradleyswaney6100
    @bradleyswaney6100 Před 6 měsíci +2

    I love the way this channel has grown. Omw. When it took off it left the planet. ❤❤❤
    I've been around a while.😂

  • @In.New.York.I.Milly.Rock.
    @In.New.York.I.Milly.Rock. Před 3 lety +17

    Man, this is some great content. Very well presented channel!

  • @nlcrme
    @nlcrme Před rokem +5

    I am so thrilled I subscribed to your CZcams account after seeing one of your short clips. You are fantastic and I really enjoy learning all of the interesting and fascinating discoveries you share and your sidekick is adorable. Hands down this is my most favorite channel ever. Thank you so much for all of your hard work.

  • @brookem3232
    @brookem3232 Před rokem

    Can't stop watching, amazing work.

  • @shamancollectibles4635
    @shamancollectibles4635 Před 26 dny +1

    Love your stuff brother !

  • @stevenjones6982
    @stevenjones6982 Před 2 lety +4

    Loved the video! Top notch quality. Thanks for sharing!

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  Před 2 lety

      Glad you enjoyed it, Steven! Always good to hear from you.

  • @robertsaienni8067
    @robertsaienni8067 Před 3 lety +5

    Seriously this channel is great ,new fresh,kept my attention, that says alot.........keep it up bro..love your lil buddy 😆 🤣

  • @richardbowman7057
    @richardbowman7057 Před 4 měsíci

    I realky dig your channell kepp it goin man !

  • @rodluv21
    @rodluv21 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Chuck norris learned to speak English reading the voynich manuscript one afternoon.

    • @rogerb.9590
      @rogerb.9590 Před měsícem

      I heard Chuck Norris wrote the manuscript in one afternoon . Lol

  • @slimmakhlouf820
    @slimmakhlouf820 Před 2 lety +10

    The beginning of the text reads as follows in Hannig's interlinear translation: "If Ackersmann groaned about times, who was sitting comfortably in the village, he ate a soup - he got sick after he had stopped digesting." Then the farmer goes to a quack who missed him a misdiagnosis and returns home: "Fearfully he locked the room, the front door too." Nobody would have expected that as the beginning of one of the most famous books in the world. Hannig translates three subsequent short and just as puzzling passages, then the introduction to the water lily picture.

  • @kotogray8335
    @kotogray8335 Před 2 lety +24

    Definitely the first part was the funniest I've seen so far
    You have a great sense of humor
    And great video
    You always seem to hold us captive with your way of telling stories

  • @Boricua2k
    @Boricua2k Před 14 dny

    Very cool! Would love to see an episode on the Codex Gigas 📖

  • @francoisterblanche1538

    Thank you for this. This specific topic has had me baffled no matter which way I look at it.

  • @dragonmage3334
    @dragonmage3334 Před 2 lety +4

    Love the content!
    Keep up the great work

  • @Nightlight-rn4yt
    @Nightlight-rn4yt Před 3 lety +54

    My phone somehow accidently opened your video on CZcams as I put it down, gotta say I was lucky as your channel is super great and that fish is killing me :D Keep it up and you will be very successful

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  Před 3 lety +3

      Now that's a sign! So glad your phone found us!

  • @strix1970
    @strix1970 Před 10 měsíci

    Love your content and presentation! What's with yhe ping pong sounds in the background though? Lol

  • @onepoundofcheese8356
    @onepoundofcheese8356 Před 24 dny +1

    I had a chance to view the manuscript while posted in Europe. I was able to decipher it myself using Uralic Finnic and prime factorization. The book is secondary in an exercise of cathartic expression but the primary function was for allegorical translation for an esoteric group whose identity is now lost to history (at least to the public). The book contains without a doubt its share of oddities just based on the source material, but one of the translations I found which was "carry a lazer down the road that you must travel" lends to a more technologically advanced time period or some sort of inestimable (and again) esoteric group quotes.

  • @cfoster6804
    @cfoster6804 Před 3 lety +6

    Subscribed. I see this channel going far. Love the conspiracies!

  • @jackflannigan5749
    @jackflannigan5749 Před rokem +20

    The most possible theory is that this ''encyclopedia'' was written and drawn by young Leonardo Da Vinci during a trip to Africa.
    It is known that Leonardo would write in Latin, mirrored and sometimes created new words out of two pre-existing words, making the translation very hard.
    The leather used for the pages match the timeline.
    Also, I don't think Edward Kelley could have produced this document because he lacked one thing... He wasn't an artist.

    • @ryansnapfood3142
      @ryansnapfood3142 Před 9 měsíci

      can you provide an example of how he used new words and combined them with existing words. I think your theory is plausible because the book survived for so many centuries.

    • @SharlatanShenanigan
      @SharlatanShenanigan Před 9 měsíci +2

      I used to like this theory until I saw some of the drawings. Da vinci would be accurate with ratio and proportions and way more detailed men in his sketches. so nah.

  • @PaulBHartzog
    @PaulBHartzog Před rokem

    I've started systematically watching your videos because of "Be safe, be kind, and know that you are appreciated."
    A great mind thinks alike.

  • @nickmester1191
    @nickmester1191 Před měsícem

    This one didn’t appear in my notifications. I’ve subscribed and have all notifications on

  • @stankfaust814
    @stankfaust814 Před rokem +11

    I heard in another presentation on the manuscript that throughout its many pages of text and illustrations, there is not a single mistake, lined out word, or other indication that a typically error prone human hand was involved in its creation. Even scribes copying things verbatim make mistakes.

    • @chrisl4999
      @chrisl4999 Před rokem +1

      Goven the text isn’t understood how would you even know of there was a mistake? And if it was all gibberish then there would never be a need to cross anything out.

    • @Altaira17
      @Altaira17 Před rokem +1

      Well, not quite. There actually are specific repeated letters that one would want to write correctly-even if just to maintain the illusion of a real language. I still find it wildly impressive that there are no scratch outs or oopsies.

  • @rabhughes7840
    @rabhughes7840 Před 3 lety +8

    Just came across ur channel , keep up the good work , all the best from sunny scotland 💙

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  Před 3 lety +1

      Welcome aboard, Rab! I read your comment in that *fantastic* Scottish accent.

    • @rabhughes7840
      @rabhughes7840 Před 3 lety

      @@TheWhyFiles lol im sure this channel will blow up soon , u really should have alot more subscribers ive litrally sat and binged all ur vids , great stuff 👍

  • @guthriejenkins
    @guthriejenkins Před rokem

    This is one of my favorite channels!

  • @Chesterton7
    @Chesterton7 Před 4 měsíci

    Fascinating and witty channel. Bravo.

  • @starlightroc399
    @starlightroc399 Před 3 lety +39

    That fish is one of the funniest quirks I've ever seen on youtube.

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  Před 3 lety +4

      Quirky is a compliment!

    • @Fimyz
      @Fimyz Před 3 lety +2

      Spicy!

    • @AshHeaven
      @AshHeaven Před 3 lety +1

      Naughty pervy goldfish

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  Před 3 lety

      @@Fimyz 😎🐟

    • @silversmoke9530
      @silversmoke9530 Před 3 lety

      I was actively scrolling the comments looking for the fish topic lol does he talk to all his fish like us

  • @MamaOfTwo
    @MamaOfTwo Před rokem +3

    Love this channel! You’ve covered so many topics I am interested in! So glad I stumbled onto this channel! Amazing content presented in such an amazing way!! Thank you for all the hard work!

  • @Tony-yf2vf
    @Tony-yf2vf Před 8 měsíci

    Another great fantastic. Fantastic concept

  • @vocaltrhain4086
    @vocaltrhain4086 Před měsícem +1

    Considering where and when it was presumably made, in Renaissance Italy, my guess would be that it is some kind of philosophical/occult codex, encoding some modern interpretation of an ancient wisdom regarding the sacred feminine and it's nature across the interwoven planes of the cosmos (including the plane of human Fallopian tubes ;)

  • @dalmasogembo7034
    @dalmasogembo7034 Před rokem +7

    Also looking at page 131 of the manuscript, you realize the inner circle has 12 images while the outer circle has 18 messages, according to biology, from a quick google search, "You're most fertile at the time of ovulation (when an egg is released from your ovaries), which usually occurs 12 to 14 days before your next period starts", from such I can make a mere conclusion that this is all about the right time one can get pregnancy so testing if one is pregnant can be done exactly at this time.

    • @zznerzz
      @zznerzz Před 7 měsíci +1

      The first thought that came to my mind was that this had to be some sort of book regarding women's menstrual cycles or something of that nature. It could possibly explain the astrology, medicinal, and bath aspects.

  • @kea4185
    @kea4185 Před 3 lety +3

    Great channel and love the fish haha. Looking forward to going through some more videos!

  • @tynosille6747
    @tynosille6747 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Joseph smith could translate angel writing behind curtains with special glasses as long as nobody peeked at what he was doing

  • @stevesanders1905
    @stevesanders1905 Před měsícem +2

    Edward Kelley was in fact a very shady guy. Got fired and had both his ears cut for fraudulent documents. He was the village clerk and some sort of pharmacist or helper. He was an alchemist for Rudolf 2.