Daniel Okafor

Daniel chases the unexplained: vanished ships, odd fossils and legends with just enough evidence to keep people arguing.

Folio 32 of the Voynich Manuscript: a leafy plant with blue flower heads, beside lines of the unknown script

The Voynich Manuscript: A 600-Year-Old Book Nobody Can Read

Daniel Okafor · November 8, 2026

Painted wall of Tutankhamun's burial chamber showing rows of seated baboons above a sarcophagus glass case

The Step Under the Workmen's Huts That Led to Tutankhamun's Tomb

Daniel Okafor · November 4, 2026

Close-up black and white portrait of a young Harry Houdini with curly hair, a dark coat and a bow tie, smiling slightly

October 31, 1926: Houdini Died on Halloween, and the Séances Began

Daniel Okafor · October 31, 2026

A tall beige BBN Interface Message Processor cabinet with rows of switches and a nameplate on its front panel

October 29, 1969: The First Message on the Internet Was Just 'LO'

Daniel Okafor · October 29, 2026

Black and white photo of the curved edge of the Earth with clouds below and the black sky of space above, taken from a V-2 rocket in 1946

October 24, 1946: The Grainy Photo That First Showed Earth From Space

Daniel Okafor · October 24, 2026