The Dodleston Messages: A Mysterious Occult Event Involving Poltergeist Activity and Time Travel

TLDR The Dodleston Messages, a strange occult event in England in the 1980s, involved poltergeist activity, time travel, and early computers. However, the authenticity of the messages and the events surrounding them remain a mystery, with some suggesting it was all a hoax.

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00:00 The Dodleston Messages is a well-known occult event that took place in England in the mid-80s, involving poltergeist activity, time travel, early computers, and fraud.
02:31 The Dodleston Messages involved poltergeist activity and strange messages appearing on a computer that claimed to be from someone living in the year 1546.
05:18 The first message Ken Webster received was accusatory, leading him to write a book called The Vertical Plane that chronicles the Dodleston Messages.
07:36 Ken Webster starts asking questions of the author who signs the early posts as LW, and later finds out that the L stands for Lucas with a K, who is writing in early modern English, which Webster claims he doesn't know how to recreate quickly, defending himself against accusations of the messages being a hoax.
10:19 Lucas sets a trap for Ken to see if he's from the future by mentioning Jesus College, which wasn't founded until after Lucas' time, but the problem is that Lucas wouldn't have known about the college if he was truly from 1546, and another name, Thomas Hardin or Hawardin, is later revealed as the possible real identity of Lucas.
12:50 Lucas and Ken believe that the messages from 2109 were sent by a time traveler who brought Lucas a computer, but it's unclear how Lucas would have known about computers in 1546 or how he would have operated one; Ken starts trying to message the third party from 2109, who responds and reveals that they have been running an experiment involving Ken, Lucas, and Debbie that will change the world, and they ask them to pretend like they don't exist; a paranormal investigation team is brought in but finds no activity, and Thomas eventually disappears, leaving something for them to discover in the future.
15:08 The book that was supposed to prove the Dodleston messages may not exist, and there is a post suggesting that it was all a hoax, leading Chuck and the host to conclude that it is impossible and likely fraud.
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