Why did the Zodiac Killer Stop KillingThe Zodiac Killer, an unidentified serial killer who operated in Northern California during the late 1960s and early 1970s, remains one of the most infa… Read More

According to the Cipher Mysteries WordPress dashboard, more than 43000 comments have been posted (and approved) here. (Akismet tells me it has deleted more than 690,000 spam comments.) Moder… Read More

Just a short note to let you know that Cipher Mysteries’ website’ comment facility is (hopefully) now working again. I had configured it to use an anti-spam WordPress plugin call… Read More

Donations help support this Blog Visions Seminar 18 March 1931 Visions Seminar LECTURE VIII Last time we were talking about the black snake. Today we are going to look into its further fate… Read More

The problems Cipher Mysteries recently had with its last web hosting supplier were all logical consequences of scale: not only had the blog got larger and the number of comments shot up, but… Read More

All things have a purpose and function. However, some objects are so peculiar, so strange, and so weird that it takes amateur detectives and internet occultists to decipher their meaning. Th… Read More

There are now many people who would happily classify themselves as ‘online researchers’. You don’t usually have to peer too far beyond the end of your mouse to see their fo… Read More

What is an Internet troll? To me, an Internet troll is anyone who puts up posts, pages, or comments (a) unsupported by evidence, (b) openly hateful, and (c) specifically designed to generate… Read More