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EPISODE · Feb 9, 2026 · 1H 17M

The Dodleston Messages | Case File 367

from ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING · host Big Theory Podcasts

In a quiet English village in the mid-1980s, an ordinary home computer became the unlikely gateway to something profoundly unsettling. As personal computing was still in its infancy, the residents of Dodleston Hall began receiving messages that seemed to break every rule of time, technology, and reason. What started as strange glitches and corrupted text soon evolved into full conversations with an unseen intelligence seeming to hail from the year 1547.The messages claimed to originate from the distant past—specifically the 16th century. The entity spoke of plague, famine, and religious persecution, describing a life that predated electricity, let alone computers. And yet, it typed fluently, asked questions about modern life, and appeared aware of events it should have had no way of knowing. Over time, the exchanges grew more personal, more emotional, and far more disturbing.Were the Dodleston Messages an elaborate hoax, a psychological experiment, or evidence of something far stranger—communication across time itself? As the conversations deepened, so did the implications, blurring the boundaries between past and present, mind and machine.This case file, join the Theorists as we boot up one of the most unnerving cases of technological high strangeness ever recorded in… The Dodleston MessagesOur Sponsors:* Check out Mood and use my code ALIEN for a great deal: https://mood.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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