The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles OR Hidden and Glorious!
Happy New Year, friends and listeners! It’s 2025 and maybe you’re just taking it easy this first day of the new year. Need something to keep you entertained? Well, this month we end our first season with a fascinating tale that had been at the fringes of our awareness for some time: The Toynbee Tiles! What are these weird little messages that have been showing up since the 1980s?! With the help of an excellent 2011 documentary, we dive deep into the Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles. Because it’s so much weirder than it appears on the surface!
SHOW NOTES
Watch Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
News article about Verna
Image of the address tile
An excerpt of Mamet’s 4AM
Audio recordings of Toynbee Radio shortwave station
Lushlife’s “Toynbee Suite”
Seb’s Descent Into the Archives
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