The HEX Files

What does a religion require to be a religion?

I have always been fascinated by alchemical illustrations and runes, this concept of a sort-of magic with an alleged scientific background. So when Halli said she was going to cover the Voynich Manuscript my mind immediately flashed to the illustrations reminiscent of the same era and knew it was time to finally crack that nut

After the events of 9/11 parties in the US were looking for a way to better forecast the movement and reaction of citizens faced with real world crises. Appearing from the Purdue campus in Indiana, the Sentient World Simulation was thought up. It has been active for 16 years, Nathan takes us through a high level scan of this weird...

In The Madman's Library by Edward Brooke-Hitching, he describes the Voynich manuscript as

This insidious cult has permeated through most of North America, but it's so common you wouldn't recognize it.

The words "Praise Satan" conjure images of devil worship, the burning of dungeons and dragons books and animal sacrifice, or at the very least Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Most of us in the western world live in societies heavily influenced by Christian religions, even if we don't practice it ourselves, we generally are aware that ...

The world is terrifying. And it is always trying to kill us. A great example (out of so many) is rabies, which we've talked about before. Horrifying stuff, and if not vaccinated against, deadly every time. Another example is lead. It's everywhere on our little blue dot, and exposure can cause all kinds of issues.

More pirates!! After our last episode detailing the Pirates of the western seas questions came up about pirates in eastern countries. While my research didn't turn up a lot of options, a few notable accounts came up.

Pirates, a crowd favorite for obvious reasons, but did you know that they had incredibly progressive views for the time? Nathan digs into the social structure of pirates in the golden age of piracy, tells us about their dealings with the government meets of the time and how they conducted themselves.

It's July 1954; a hot day. A man arrives at Tokyo airport in Japan. He's of Caucasian appearance and conventional-looking. But the officials are suspicious. On checking his passport, they see that he hails from a country called Taured. The passport looked genuine, except for the fact that there is no such country as Taured [...]The man is...