Limina Oblita

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Lovecraft's lore, ghost stories and old folklore, and the real history behind them. Limina Oblita is strange stories, old folklore and hidden worlds. Our first strand is Behind the Legends: Boston, the believer, and Chelsea, the sceptic, go looking for what's really behind the Necronomicon, the ghosts of Highgate Cemetery and more, and the record decides who gives ground. Readings and radio plays from the weird fiction of the 1920s will join them. Limina Oblita is made by people and AI together. Every story is brainstormed, argued over and researched in collaboration: a person brings each one and has the last word, and every source is checked. The voices are made with AI, from scripts written with AI and gone through line by line. The sources for each Behind the Legends episode are in its letter at liminaoblita.substack.com. liminaoblita.substack.com

Episodes

  1. 11h ago

    The fish-men before the Deep Ones

    A headless Triton in a Greek temple. Sea-people reported to Roman emperors. A fisherman who tastes strange grass and becomes an immortal being of the sea. Boston and Chelsea follow the ancient fish-men, then test how much of the trail really leads to Lovecraft: the Ovid reading evidence, Dagon’s inherited fish interpretation and the difference between a literary allusion and a proven source. A sacred lake with a gold-adorned fish opens another possibility. Some creatures of the water taught people; fish-cloaked sages helped protect their homes. The object is real. The under-floor protective practice is documented. That doesn’t make every fish-man the same being. Made by people and AI together: Boston and Chelsea are characters voiced with AI, from scripts written with AI out of research we brainstormed, argued over and checked. Source links are in the notes with this episode. Read the companion letter, The Fish-Men Who Kept Evil Out, on Substack. Companion investigation The Fish-Men Who Kept Evil Out · Film Selected sources - Pausanias, Frazer translation, volume 1 - Frazer commentary, volume 5 - Pliny, Natural History 9.4, Bostock and Riley - Ovid, Metamorphoses 13, Riley - Lovecraft, Some Notes on a Nonentity - The Met, fish-cloaked sage 54.117.25 - Layard, Discoveries, chapter 16 - Erra and Išum 1, Jiménez translation - Lucian, The Syrian Goddess, Strong and Garstang 1913, especially 45 - Rashi on 1 Samuel 5:2 - Milton, Paradise Lost 1.462–463 - Dagan research overview, Oracc - Braccini 2024, Ovid and Innsmouth (abstract access only in this investigation) - Green 1983, protective figures (extract access; full article not inspected) Chapters 00:00 Cold open 00:30 Titles 01:16 The thing in the temple 04:23 News for the emperor 07:42 The fisherman 11:56 The god with no tail 16:30 Under the floor 21:48 Close Get full access to Limina Oblita at liminaoblita.substack.com/subscribe

    The fish-men before the Deep Ones

  2. 2d ago

    The Book of Soyga: the book that only angels could read

    John Dee brought an existing magical book to his first recorded session with Edward Kelley in 1582. The reported angel attributed it to revelation to Adam, but reserved interpretation to Michael. What did Dee hope its thirty-six tables could do? Boston and Chelsea follow the surviving Book of Soyga, Deborah Harkness’s recovery of its copies under another name, and Jim Reeds’s discovery of the rule that grows its squares. Then they count six letters from three names of God and build one checked cell aloud. Binding spirits, invisibility and a table made from the master’s own name give the book a purpose beyond an unreadable puzzle. Construction, interpretation and historical practice leave different questions open. Made by people and AI together: Boston and Chelsea are characters with AI voices, working from scripts developed with AI from research we read, argued over and checked. Source links are in the episode notes; the companion letter has the table recipe. Companion investigation The book only an angel could read · Film Selected sources - Dee, Mysteriorum Liber Primus transcription: prayer and first Kelley action - Dee, Heptarchia transcription: stated aims - Kupin, Aldaraia sive Soyga vocor translation, especially 26–28 - Reeds, construction of the tables - Harkness, Conversations with Angels: publisher preview - Findell, author study of the angelic alphabet - Laycock, The Complete Enochian Dictionary (2001 reprint of revised edition) - Agrippa, planetary tables, Book 2, chapter 22 Original experiments are our bounded comparisons; they do not establish a decipherment or verify supernatural claims. Chapters 00:00 Cold open 00:37 Titles 01:10 An old book, a new conversation 05:30 The name on the shelf 09:13 Six letters you can hear 14:20 Making the next letter 18:54 The master’s table 22:47 Close Get full access to Limina Oblita at liminaoblita.substack.com/subscribe

    The Book of Soyga: the book that only angels could read

  3. 3d ago

    The Psychic Arms Race

    What would you do if your Cold War rival might be able to see inside a secret base without sending a spy? Boston and Chelsea follow the psychic arms race from Soviet telepathy reports to CIA-funded remote viewing, argue over Pat Price’s crane drawing, and ask how sure governments had to be before they could stop funding the search. Then they work through the experiments themselves: hidden photographs, mental attempts to influence machines, and choices made before a computer selects its target. Made by people and AI together: Boston and Chelsea are characters voiced with AI, in a show developed through human–AI research, discussion and checking. Chapters 00:00 · Cold open 00:56 · Titles 01:36 · Where it started 05:02 · Testing the claims 07:14 · The crane at Semipalatinsk 12:56 · Looking back across the divide 14:17 · Did it work? 19:13 · In the laboratory 22:38 · Mind over matter 24:17 · Seeing the future 29:20 · The search now Sources * Vasiliev’s 1962 book, in Russian * Plyushch’s memoir, printed pp. 45–47 * CIA’s historical account of its early interest * Kenneth Kress’s personal review * LaMothe’s July 1972 threat assessment * 1975 Soviet/Czechoslovakian research survey * 1975 evaluation of the URDF-3 experiment * Puthoff’s later SRI account * AIR’s 1995 evaluation, including operational tasks * Jessica Utts’s scientific assessment and Ray Hyman’s review * Edwin May’s 1996 commentary * Storm and colleagues’ 2010 analysis and Hyman’s criticism * Ganzfeld bias simulations * Intentional RNG review and 2018 passive-observation test * 2023 remote-viewing synthesis and one included home-viewing study * Bem’s original 2011 paper * Three recall replications, seven recall experiments and positive 2016 synthesis * Transparent Psi Project, published correction and 2025 follow-up * 2026 GotPsi archive analysis * Koestler study registry and Psi@Home2 results Current-research references were checked on 3 November 2026. Historical participant accounts, experimental results and later interpretations are distinguished in the episode. Source links allow further reading; the full argument is in the audio. Get full access to Limina Oblita at liminaoblita.substack.com/subscribe

    The Psychic Arms Race

  4. 4d ago

    The Voynich manuscript: we tested every answer

    A professor reads secrets in cracks in the ink. A dealer supplies a magician. And a meaningless copying scribe passes one of our own tests. Boston and Chelsea investigate the Voynich manuscript, following its ownership evidence and testing four explanations: a lost language, an invented one, meaningless writing, or a code. A six-page comparison changes the argument; a tiny invented cipher shows why counting the right marks matters. No decipherment is claimed, and our later research corrects an earlier overstatement about which ciphers can be excluded. Made by people and AI together: Boston and Chelsea are characters voiced with AI, from scripts developed with AI through research, argument and checking. Source links are in the episode notes. The accompanying letter and film follow the investigation; this longer episode also includes the later corrections to our cipher-method research. Companion investigation The Voynich manuscript: we tested every answer · Watch the film Selected sources Yale MS408 catalogue Guzy, Rudolf II book transactions Marci and Baresch correspondence Bowern and Lindemann, linguistic review Greshko, Naibbe construction and code Chapters 00:00 Cold open 00:37 Titles 01:11 The book 02:55 Who actually held it? 07:18 A sentence isn’t a key 10:37 A lost language? 14:36 It means nothing? 19:27 A code? 24:09 Close Get full access to Limina Oblita at liminaoblita.substack.com/subscribe

    The Voynich manuscript: we tested every answer

  5. 6d ago

    The children who remember another life

    A six-year-old in Turkey describes a rich man’s house by the water in Istanbul, a city he had never been to, and a researcher writes it down before he goes looking. A two-year-old in the United States has nightmares about a plane crash and says a word his parents trace to a wartime aircraft carrier. Boston, the believer, and Chelsea, the sceptic, follow both children from the first clue to the archive: the details that fit, the ones that don’t, and why the two paper trails are different kinds of thing. No verdict, and no promises. Made by people and AI together: Boston and Chelsea are characters voiced with AI, from scripts written with AI out of research we brainstormed, argued over and checked. Every source is in the letter that goes with this episode. Chapters00:00 Cold open01:05 Titles01:55 1 · The notebook04:08 2 · The man in the house08:59 3 · The boy and the ship12:57 4 · The bit Boston hates15:24 5 · Two kinds of paper17:25 Close Read the accompanying letter and sources: The Children Who Remember Another Life Get full access to Limina Oblita at liminaoblita.substack.com/subscribe

    The children who remember another life

  6. Oct 31

    What haunts Highgate Cemetery?

    A believer and a sceptic walk through Highgate’s ghost stories, from a figure at the North Gate to the vampire hunt of 1970, and argue about what really happened. Made by people and AI together: Boston and Chelsea are characters voiced with AI, from scripts written with AI out of research we brainstormed, argued over and checked. Every source is in the letter, What haunts Highgate Cemetery?, and you can see the places in the film. Get full access to Limina Oblita at liminaoblita.substack.com/subscribe

    What haunts Highgate Cemetery?

  7. Oct 30

    Is the Necronomicon real?

    A believer and a sceptic go looking for the Necronomicon: which parts are real, which were borrowed, and who faked the rest. From Lovecraft’s own letters to a 1978 book that claimed to be the real thing, and the real manuscripts it was built on. Made by people and AI together: Boston and Chelsea are characters voiced with AI, from scripts written with AI out of research we brainstormed, argued over and checked. Every source is in the letter, Is the Necronomicon real?, and you can see the pages in the film. Get full access to Limina Oblita at liminaoblita.substack.com/subscribe

    Is the Necronomicon real?

  8. Oct 30

    Welcome to Behind the Legends

    A believer and a sceptic go looking for the real history behind the legends. In this short introduction, Boston and Chelsea say what the show is, how it’s made by people and AI working together, and what’s coming first: the Necronomicon, then Highgate Cemetery. Made by people and AI together: Boston and Chelsea are characters voiced with AI, from scripts written with AI out of research we brainstormed, argued over and checked. Get full access to Limina Oblita at liminaoblita.substack.com/subscribe

    Welcome to Behind the Legends
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Lovecraft's lore, ghost stories and old folklore, and the real history behind them. Limina Oblita is strange stories, old folklore and hidden worlds. Our first strand is Behind the Legends: Boston, the believer, and Chelsea, the sceptic, go looking for what's really behind the Necronomicon, the ghosts of Highgate Cemetery and more, and the record decides who gives ground. Readings and radio plays from the weird fiction of the 1920s will join them. Limina Oblita is made by people and AI together. Every story is brainstormed, argued over and researched in collaboration: a person brings each one and has the last word, and every source is checked. The voices are made with AI, from scripts written with AI and gone through line by line. The sources for each Behind the Legends episode are in its letter at liminaoblita.substack.com. liminaoblita.substack.com

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  • Creator
    Limina Oblita
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    8
  • Rating
    Clean
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