Voynich Manuscript Decoded | The Mysterious Book Finally Solved?

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  • Опубликовано: 31 май 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 2 года назад +1052

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

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  2 года назад +112

      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 Год назад

      @@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 Год назад +25

      @@TheWhyFiles slowly.. Keep it real.. Lol have watched all your videos since found u 3 days ago..

    • @billyfoster5904
      @billyfoster5904 Год назад +14

      HE HAS A VERY Convincing CONTENT I AGREE 💯

    • @No_One_0707
      @No_One_0707 Год назад +7

      Actually bro

  • @gretzkyyy5645
    @gretzkyyy5645 3 года назад +448

    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  3 года назад +76

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

    • @HecklefishMoriarty
      @HecklefishMoriarty 3 года назад +18

      You also learned fish from Brooklyn can talk.

    • @gretzkyyy5645
      @gretzkyyy5645 3 года назад +11

      @@HecklefishMoriarty will you ever post your own videos, hecklefish? 🥺🥺

    • @HecklefishMoriarty
      @HecklefishMoriarty 3 года назад +13

      @@gretzkyyy5645 Oooh! OOOOH!!! My first video request!!!

    • @planexshifter
      @planexshifter 3 года назад +8

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

  • @monot00nz
    @monot00nz Год назад +42

    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 17 дней назад

      Well our USA English is actually English slang

    • @alphagt62
      @alphagt62 9 дней назад

      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.

  • @NPazable
    @NPazable Год назад +6

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

  • @rehab_reject
    @rehab_reject Год назад +77

    I've never binge watched a RUclips channel until now. Well done for creating a CGI sidekick who isn't annoying AF. Keep it up.

  • @dennisgriffith9217
    @dennisgriffith9217 Год назад +1144

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

  • @dunningkruger3774
    @dunningkruger3774 Год назад +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 Год назад +8

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

    • @dunningkruger3774
      @dunningkruger3774 Год назад +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 Год назад +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 Год назад +1

      ​@@dunningkruger3774 best electrical conductor

    • @revabbyjoovitsky5152
      @revabbyjoovitsky5152 Год назад +1

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

  • @joelbrew75
    @joelbrew75 6 месяцев назад +33

    Discovered this channel about two weeks ago… addicted. Love it. Keep the episodes coming!

    • @rushslayer8647
      @rushslayer8647 5 месяцев назад

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

    • @drake7036
      @drake7036 3 месяца назад

      Same here!

    • @TheSweetswed
      @TheSweetswed 3 месяца назад

      Same this guy is the best storyteller

  • @lovejackson2830
    @lovejackson2830 4 месяца назад +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!

  • @vast634
    @vast634 3 года назад +670

    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  3 года назад +110

      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 3 года назад +151

      @@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  3 года назад +71

      OK, you might actually be on to something here.

    • @vercingetorixwulf9298
      @vercingetorixwulf9298 2 года назад +23

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

    • @justinm2697
      @justinm2697 2 года назад +22

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

  • @aswinvos4589
    @aswinvos4589 2 года назад +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  2 года назад +23

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

    • @aswinvos4589
      @aswinvos4589 2 года назад +7

      @@TheWhyFiles you're welcome! I'm very happy to see a small RUclipsr 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!

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  2 года назад +20

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

    • @aswinvos4589
      @aswinvos4589 2 года назад +2

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

    • @aswinvos4589
      @aswinvos4589 2 года назад +4

      @@TheWhyFiles for example, if you have a free day... Record multiple videos, and plan them in! Don't record and then upload... Record a few, and plan them in, so that you always have content releasing every week / 2 weeks!

  • @grin_of_grimmsnarl1333
    @grin_of_grimmsnarl1333 8 месяцев назад +12

    This content is two years old and still getting views! Im almost all caught up on your backlog after a video or two on my lunch breaks! Best show on YT bar none and it only gets better! Keep up the hard work, AJ!! ❤u Hecklefish!!!

    • @rushslayer8647
      @rushslayer8647 5 месяцев назад

      That’s because it’s the best channel out there! And hopefully you’ve seen his crop circle episode, I tell everyone about that, and that it will change their outlook on life. That episode is just insane.

  • @wesleywashington1251
    @wesleywashington1251 10 месяцев назад +68

    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!!

    • @KingTainmentTV
      @KingTainmentTV 9 месяцев назад +4

      you can, its all in your phone

    • @ericmarc7529
      @ericmarc7529 3 месяца назад

      Shh. Let him think he can't 😂

  • @jenniferfields10
    @jenniferfields10 Год назад +360

    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 Год назад +48

      I think this is a very plausible answer tbh

    • @Chris-es3wf
      @Chris-es3wf Год назад +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 Год назад +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 Год назад +45

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

    • @megs4193
      @megs4193 Год назад +2

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

  • @cahg3871
    @cahg3871 Год назад +29

    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 Год назад +3

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

  • @Transilvanian90
    @Transilvanian90 Год назад +274

    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 Год назад +10

      Indeed

    • @petitenoire
      @petitenoire Год назад +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 Год назад +27

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

    • @imdeaded
      @imdeaded 11 месяцев назад +21

      The AI will recruit a human to decifer it.

    • @andrewsilbaugh5873
      @andrewsilbaugh5873 11 месяцев назад +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.

  • @elizabethcayless307
    @elizabethcayless307 Год назад +7

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

  • @sarser8089
    @sarser8089 Год назад +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.

  • @adambellshaw3587
    @adambellshaw3587 Год назад +112

    It is nice to finally find a channel that provides interesting stories with some factual content and some good debunking too!
    I have shared the channel far and wide, fingers crossed we can grow the community and viewership!

    • @herbertnosworthy1
      @herbertnosworthy1 Год назад +1

      If you stare long enough subs will flip over to 1M any minute now…

    • @jons2447
      @jons2447 Год назад

      Why do you have a foot tattooed on your arm?

    • @adambellshaw3587
      @adambellshaw3587 Год назад

      @@jons2447 Good question, but who's to say its my tattoo....

    • @rushslayer8647
      @rushslayer8647 5 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @worldsgreatestimpressionis6462
    @worldsgreatestimpressionis6462 9 месяцев назад +4

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

  • @bradziegel6561
    @bradziegel6561 4 месяца назад +4

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

  • @miguekechague538
    @miguekechague538 3 года назад +1488

    Here before this guy blows up

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  3 года назад +308

      I'll remember you were here, Miguek. 💪😎🙏

    • @HecklefishMoriarty
      @HecklefishMoriarty 3 года назад +4

      Blows up in an explosion, maybe?

    • @ajgentileofficial
      @ajgentileofficial 3 года назад +50

      Thanks for the kind words, Miguek.

    • @chloet182
      @chloet182 3 года назад +4

      @@TheWhyFiles
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    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  3 года назад +17

      @@HecklefishMoriarty Watch it.

  • @BENZ007
    @BENZ007 2 года назад +112

    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  2 года назад +17

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

    • @williamwhareaorere8994
      @williamwhareaorere8994 2 года назад +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 Год назад +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 Год назад

      Crazy like a fox...

  • @deannagiuliani8541
    @deannagiuliani8541 Год назад +2

    I listen to RUclips videos while I work and I am so sad I'm running out of your content. This channel is amazing. Thank you!

  • @teopsjon8180
    @teopsjon8180 8 месяцев назад +9

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

  • @Steve_V1066
    @Steve_V1066 2 года назад +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  2 года назад +20

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

    • @RichardBramlett
      @RichardBramlett Год назад +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 😉

    • @miriamgharbi8512
      @miriamgharbi8512 Год назад +4

      I completely agree with Steve Victory. 💪love your videos! ❤️

    • @AmyInArizona
      @AmyInArizona Год назад +3

      Yeah! Me too❣️

    • @skeptik212
      @skeptik212 Год назад +2

      Yes, longer videos would be great...
      (Why was that in Heckelfish's voice in my head?)

  • @jonathanlevy3747
    @jonathanlevy3747 Год назад +8

    Of the 25+ videos I've watched now, these were the best asides. You've got a great style and wonderful contact. You're doing great, mate, much appreciated,

  • @colindeer9657
    @colindeer9657 6 месяцев назад +4

    AJ, I love hanging out with you man. Thanks too to the production crew ! I know this vid is old but it just popped up on my feed. Great just the same. Loved it.

  • @caitlinallen8400
    @caitlinallen8400 Год назад +4

    "I'm not blowing anything for you" I'm wheezing 🤣🤣

  • @usertttt7483
    @usertttt7483 Год назад +29

    i just found this channel and I already think it’s one of the highest quality channels on here. Thank you for making actual interesting content

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  Год назад +3

      Thank you for being a part of our whacky community, Usertttt! (BTW, thank you for for leaving a comment, that definitely helps the algorithm.) You are very much appreciated!

  • @TLEawareness
    @TLEawareness Год назад +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.

  • @CharlieKnight42021
    @CharlieKnight42021 Месяц назад

    Showing LOVE for my absolute FAVORITE channel period Love watching earlier videos. Thanks for y'alls amazing channel. Have a blessed day everyone

  • @ravenkamalioneplus
    @ravenkamalioneplus Год назад +6

    Voynich manuscript was the inspiration behind one of my short stories. However, I have this tale to tell. Years ago, I had a strange dream that I was singing for someone I knew a beautiful song in an unknown language, which was a mixture of Latin and Arabic. As I finished singing it, this person told me to sing it at their funeral. Three months after this dream this person died suddenly of a rare form of cancer.

    • @jackdavinci
      @jackdavinci 11 месяцев назад +6

      Did you sing it at their funeral?

  • @kylefortner8709
    @kylefortner8709 2 года назад +94

    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  2 года назад +27

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

    • @kylefortner8709
      @kylefortner8709 2 года назад +21

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

    • @mahiwagangpilipinas8976
      @mahiwagangpilipinas8976 Год назад +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 Год назад +5

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

    • @jasonsmith8401
      @jasonsmith8401 Год назад +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

  • @kotogray8335
    @kotogray8335 Год назад +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

    • @theurbanthirdhomestead
      @theurbanthirdhomestead Год назад

      🤔 His narratives hold a lot of conspiracy theorists captive. Interesting.

  • @echeaz
    @echeaz 5 месяцев назад +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!

  • @mikiesnaxx4604
    @mikiesnaxx4604 Год назад +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 11 месяцев назад

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

  • @kurtkyre
    @kurtkyre Год назад +67

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

    • @hellboundrubber4448
      @hellboundrubber4448 10 месяцев назад +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

  • @AM-br4ix
    @AM-br4ix Год назад +7

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

  • @evelynabundis778
    @evelynabundis778 Год назад +2

    IM OBSESSED WITH YOUR VIDEOS!!!! ORDERED ME AND MY BUDDY A SHIRT TOO!!! Keep the videos coming!!!!!

  • @drdaveist
    @drdaveist Год назад +1

    I subbed a few days ago. I'm hooked on your videos, already sharing them with friends. keep at it, you're doing great!

  • @alexg519
    @alexg519 3 года назад +35

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

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  3 года назад +4

      Alex, you clearly have excellent taste in movies.

    • @HecklefishMoriarty
      @HecklefishMoriarty 3 года назад +6

      Those clips were all my idea.

  • @facetious8727
    @facetious8727 Год назад +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

  • @kaneandable187
    @kaneandable187 11 месяцев назад

    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

  • @bellabird
    @bellabird 8 месяцев назад +1

    Great stuff. Always look forward to your videos. 😊

  • @shaunhayward
    @shaunhayward Год назад +10

    Came for the Voynich Manuscript, stayed for the HeckleFish

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  Год назад +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"

  • @Chri710
    @Chri710 Год назад +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!

  • @MichaelJMMulligan
    @MichaelJMMulligan 9 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @pqthias
    @pqthias 7 месяцев назад

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

  • @Nightlight-rn4yt
    @Nightlight-rn4yt 3 года назад +54

    My phone somehow accidently opened your video on RUclips 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  3 года назад +3

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

  • @bhope13
    @bhope13 Год назад +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 Год назад +9

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

    • @youcantbeatk7006
      @youcantbeatk7006 Год назад +6

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

    • @lostpopcorns
      @lostpopcorns Год назад +4

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

    • @youcantbeatk7006
      @youcantbeatk7006 Год назад +1

      @@lostpopcorns Read.

    • @lostpopcorns
      @lostpopcorns Год назад +3

      @@youcantbeatk7006 Think.

  • @chrisfisher1625
    @chrisfisher1625 11 месяцев назад

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

  • @heatherhuggzskullz4211
    @heatherhuggzskullz4211 11 месяцев назад

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

  • @darrylrump2419
    @darrylrump2419 Год назад +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 Год назад +1

      I doubt Union rules will let Hecklefish on TV.

    • @xymoriintus
      @xymoriintus Год назад

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

    • @ingridgallagher1029
      @ingridgallagher1029 11 месяцев назад

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

    • @rushslayer8647
      @rushslayer8647 5 месяцев назад

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

  • @joeroberts-entertainment
    @joeroberts-entertainment 9 месяцев назад

    Love the show. Great stuff. Keep it coming.

  • @bradleyswaney6100
    @bradleyswaney6100 5 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @crittycothran6271
    @crittycothran6271 Год назад +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  Год назад +4

      Thanks for joining our crazy little community, Critty!

  • @slimmakhlouf820
    @slimmakhlouf820 2 года назад +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.

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  2 года назад +1

      If the translation is accurate...

  • @dfortin0011
    @dfortin0011 Год назад +1

    this channel is brilliant...im hooked

  • @hiriasbloodweaver8593
    @hiriasbloodweaver8593 9 месяцев назад +5

    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.

  • @juliao1255
    @juliao1255 Год назад +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!")

  • @perfmr2
    @perfmr2 3 года назад +11

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

  • @percarlemil
    @percarlemil 9 месяцев назад

    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

  • @brookem3232
    @brookem3232 11 месяцев назад

    Can't stop watching, amazing work.

  • @nlcrme
    @nlcrme Год назад +5

    I am so thrilled I subscribed to your RUclips 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.

  • @stankfaust814
    @stankfaust814 Год назад +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 Год назад +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 Год назад +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.

  • @MrSimplesimon1987
    @MrSimplesimon1987 Год назад

    I've just subbed. Great job to both A.J. & Hecklefish. This one got me. Great job.

  • @Kim-hn4xk
    @Kim-hn4xk 8 месяцев назад

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

  • @CharnHorpee
    @CharnHorpee Год назад +3

    Everytime I watch one of these videos from you, I never get another one recommended in a row. Same with wendigoon, a person who tackles similar “sketchy” topics. It’s like the system is seasoned to discourage learning about the mysteries people have uncovered. RUclips’ll just suggest some hullabaloo try and throw me off track lol. You’re doing the lords work, keep bringing the fringe to the forefront sir, it’s appreciated

  • @starlightroc399
    @starlightroc399 3 года назад +40

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

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  3 года назад +4

      Quirky is a compliment!

    • @Fimyz
      @Fimyz 3 года назад +2

      Spicy!

    • @AshHeaven
      @AshHeaven 3 года назад +1

      Naughty pervy goldfish

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  3 года назад

      @@Fimyz 😎🐟

    • @silversmoke9530
      @silversmoke9530 3 года назад

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

  • @stevecostello7267
    @stevecostello7267 8 месяцев назад

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

  • @90210julius
    @90210julius 9 месяцев назад

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

  • @oldcaptainjayyoutube2491
    @oldcaptainjayyoutube2491 2 года назад +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  2 года назад +37

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

    • @TLEawareness
      @TLEawareness Год назад +13

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

    • @LindysEpiphany
      @LindysEpiphany Год назад +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 Год назад +2

      @@LindysEpiphany same

    • @kellikelli4413
      @kellikelli4413 Год назад +2

      Very believable explanation 👍

  • @jackflannigan5749
    @jackflannigan5749 Год назад +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 8 месяцев назад

      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 8 месяцев назад +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.

  • @jaredtharp1341
    @jaredtharp1341 5 месяцев назад

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

  • @richardbowman7057
    @richardbowman7057 3 месяца назад

    I realky dig your channell kepp it goin man !

  • @YaBoiGibbons
    @YaBoiGibbons 3 года назад +6

    I can’t wait till this guy becomes a very successful RUclipsr then I can say I was one of the first view thousand subscribers. Good work my guy keep up this type of good content.

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  3 года назад

      Thanks for the kind words and support, YaBoi! From... YourBoy

  • @linds1571
    @linds1571 Год назад +4

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

  • @daniellemajor1988
    @daniellemajor1988 Месяц назад

    Haha, there is a big difference in video lighting and production to the newer videos! Love it all!

  • @Chesterton7
    @Chesterton7 3 месяца назад

    Fascinating and witty channel. Bravo.

  • @davefortenberry366
    @davefortenberry366 Год назад +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.

  • @williamlane6077
    @williamlane6077 Год назад +7

    I am sure someone somewhere has suggested giving one of these quantum computers a crack at it but I have not heard anything about it. If nothing else it could at least tell us the probability of it ever being decoded. As far as it being a trick that was pulled as you suggested. Seems to me that an extreme amount of thought and time went into its creation and it just does not seem likely to me that they would of put that much effort into it, but who knows. Another great video sir!
    P.S. - I am nominating you for the Pulitzer prize for dancing so mesmerizing that I have cropped that section and looped it as a separate video and have now missed 6 meals, been awake for 36 hours straight, have begun to pee in bottles and line them around the room (Like Mr, Hughes) for fear of missing something. Outstanding!

    • @artglass00
      @artglass00 Год назад +1

      You were recommended to me by a friend and I have watched everything on this channel. Best show on RUclips by far Love it, love you and love Hecklefish ❤️

  • @guthriejenkins
    @guthriejenkins 11 месяцев назад

    This is one of my favorite channels!

  • @Tony-yf2vf
    @Tony-yf2vf 7 месяцев назад

    Another great fantastic. Fantastic concept

  • @FenixDown147
    @FenixDown147 3 года назад +19

    Yea this guys is gunna blow up
    for some reason the Ping Pong Ball sound in the background @9:25 is so confusing

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  3 года назад +1

      Thanks, Fenix! SO... whenever Hecklefish says something ridiculous, I throw up a random sound effect. This time was ping pong. Another video was bowling. Have an idea for the next video?? I'm open!

    • @gbombmr6125
      @gbombmr6125 3 года назад +1

      @@TheWhyFiles a pillow hitting a wood table

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  3 года назад

      @@gbombmr6125 LOVE IT.

    • @hannafierce5
      @hannafierce5 Месяц назад

      The old school slipping noise

  • @Vexarax
    @Vexarax 2 года назад +6

    I'm thinking about making Christmas cards this year that are replicas of mini Vonyich manuscripts - like using the art and weird lettering etc, hand drawing it and dying with tea bags to make it look old :D

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  2 года назад +3

      LOVE THIS IDEA. Hecklefish wants one.

  • @telsah1
    @telsah1 4 месяца назад

    oh I love that Angel at the end. I love happy endings. Making me giggle. Thank you.

  • @nickmester1191
    @nickmester1191 7 дней назад

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

  • @ace21091
    @ace21091 Год назад +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  Год назад +1

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

  • @weisswurstfruhstuck8523
    @weisswurstfruhstuck8523 Год назад +15

    Enochian magick from Kelley is not just nonsense. If you’d study it makes sense. Of course only for people interested and knowing about ceremonial magick and grimoires. Not that easy as mentioned here at all!

    • @trentosborn0990
      @trentosborn0990 11 месяцев назад

      Very true but the keys are hidden and only the worthy can find their way no one book or teaching can ever connect the dots but only the long path of discovery and knowledge hidden inside each other and history and signs this is the homunculus formula written in the secret language of the flame and it’s mystical properties

  • @tynosille6747
    @tynosille6747 4 месяца назад +1

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

  • @lisateters482
    @lisateters482 5 месяцев назад

    I love this stuff! AJ & Hecklefish rule!!! Keep up the good work!

  • @christinadehnel8687
    @christinadehnel8687 Год назад +26

    *My own theory on the Voynich Manuscript*
    I only recently stumbled onto your channel & the first episode I saw was on the man from Taured & multiverse quantum mechanics. As covered in that episode it is widely accepted today that there are multiple universes that at times can overlap causing slips through their thin spots. I have always believed that this manuscript is from an adjacent universe that found its way into ours. Given the language "doesn't exist" & that most of the plant life depicted doesn't & never has existed suggests to me that a corresponding universe to ours DID/DOES have such language & plant life. I have believed this to be the case since first hearing of this book's existence.

    • @eski_truv
      @eski_truv 5 месяцев назад +3

      I personally think the guy was just bored and this was his sketchbook😂😂 I play my fair share of video games and I’m what they call an “offline player”. Which means instead of playing online with others, I prefer to play by myself and create entire worlds/storylines in the game. Just like in game you can create entirely new sports teams that never existed, I think that’s what this guy was doing with his sketchbook. Creating his own plants, listing his own thoughts, perhaps even creating his own language along with it.

    • @christinadehnel8687
      @christinadehnel8687 5 месяцев назад +1

      @eski_truv well technically we don't know who "HE" is. The book was found & no one actually knows who made it but your theory is definitely plausible.

    • @robinmurphy8705
      @robinmurphy8705 4 месяца назад

      @@eski_truvvery plausible.

    • @user-hj7ld4ff7p
      @user-hj7ld4ff7p 4 месяца назад

      Well, I'm glad the got naked ladies next door, too. Not much of a universe without them.

  • @dalmasogembo7034
    @dalmasogembo7034 Год назад +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 6 месяцев назад +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.

  • @BlazingNana
    @BlazingNana 10 месяцев назад +1

    This could be a grimoire! Especially with all the plants and naked women. Those could be rituals or spells.

  • @duckinstonduckie955
    @duckinstonduckie955 9 дней назад

    Here after this guy blew up, good job 👍 👏

  • @MamaOfTwo
    @MamaOfTwo Год назад +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!

  • @warren4004
    @warren4004 3 года назад +28

    The fish SPEAKS?? I’m subbing

    • @TheWhyFiles
      @TheWhyFiles  3 года назад +1

      Haha! We have a winner for comment of the day.

  • @craigsudman4556
    @craigsudman4556 10 месяцев назад

    I've translated the Voynich Manuscript: "Eat at Joe's" Great video thumbs up.

  • @thomashorrock7221
    @thomashorrock7221 Год назад

    Hecklefish’s reaction @3:41 to Robert Deniro is hilarious