The Dodleston Messages and the Computer That Talked to the Past
In 1984, English schoolteacher Ken Webster brought a BBC Micro computer home to Meadow Cottage in Dodleston, Cheshire. 
Before long, strange messages allegedly began appearing on the machine.
Their author claimed to occupy the same patch of land as Webster, except he wasn’t writing from another room.
He said he was living there more than 400 years earlier.
What followed became known as the Dodleston Messages, a bizarre correspondence involving Tudor England, a mysterious box of lights and eventually someone claiming to communicate from 2109.
Webster documented the affair in his 1989 book The Vertical Plane.
Something Strange at Meadow Cottage
Webster lived at Meadow Cottage with his girlfriend Debbie Oakes.
According to his account, unusual activity had already occurred around the property, including objects apparently being moved and arranged without explanation.
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Then Webster brought home a BBC Micro from the school where he worked. 
Strange writing began appearing on the computer.
The correspondent eventually identified himself as Lukas, or L.W., and wrote in an unusual form of archaic English.
At first, a prank seemed like the obvious explanation.
Then Lukas claimed he was writing from 16th century England.
The mystery had just moved the goalposts by about 4 centuries.
Meet Your Neighbor From 1546
According to the correspondence, Lukas lived on the same land as Meadow Cottage during the reign of Henry VIII.
From Lukas’s perspective, Webster was the strange presence. 
He seemed confused about who these mysterious people were and eventually came to believe they were connected with another group communicating with him.
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In one exchange, Lukas revealed just how tangled things had become.
“You said your time is 1985. I thought you were also from 2109 like your friend who brought the box of lights, pray?”– Ken Webster, The Vertical Plane
Webster questioned Lukas about his life, surroundings and Tudor England.
The messages contained archaic spellings and historical references, some of which appeared consistent with the period.
None of that proved the writer lived in the 1500s. Someone with enough knowledge could’ve researched Tudor history and imitated old language.
But Lukas’s reference to 2109 opened another door.
Calling 2109
Lukas apparently wasn’t using a computer himself.
He described communicating through something Webster interpreted as a box of lights, supposedly brought to him by another mysterious visitor.
Webster eventually typed a simple message into his computer. Calling 2109.
A reply allegedly appeared. 
The new correspondent wrote differently from Lukas and referred to itself collectively as 2109.
“Try to understand that you three have a purpose that shall in your life time changes the face of history, we, 2109, must not affect your thoughts directly but give you some sort of guidance that will allow room for your own destiny.”– Message attributed to 2109, reproduced in Ken Webster’s The Vertical Plane
The mystery now appeared to involve three points in time.
Lukas was supposedly communicating from Tudor England, Webster from the 1980s and 2109 from somewhere else entirely.
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The rabbit hole had suddenly grown another floor.
When Webster asked who or what they were, the answers didn’t exactly clear the fog.
“Movement that casts no shadows, thought without chemical reaction, love without passion, hate without anger, wars without life lost. How can we have a name? We are many but no more than one in the time to come.”– Message attributed to 2109, reproduced in Ken Webster’s The Vertical Plane
If somebody was pulling Webster’s leg, they certainly weren’t doing things by halves.
A Hoax Hiding in Plain Sight?
The simplest explanation is that somebody created the messages.
Nothing about a BBC Micro displaying mysterious text required paranormal technology.
Files could’ve been created and altered through ordinary means, while historical language and obscure facts could’ve been researched.
Webster also brought outsiders into the affair. 
Some remained unconvinced even after observing events surrounding the computer.
Who was writing the messages?
According to Webster, the correspondence continued over many months, involved different computers and developed an increasingly elaborate mythology around Lukas and 2109.
A hoax could explain it.
It would’ve simply been one hell of a commitment.
Lukas Wasn’t Lukas
Eventually the Tudor correspondent revealed another twist.
He claimed Lukas Wainman wasn’t his real name.
He identified himself instead as Tomas Hawarden, saying he’d adopted another identity while in hiding.
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His situation supposedly became increasingly dangerous as accusations of witchcraft surrounded him.
Eventually he claimed he’d have to leave his home, bringing the correspondence to an end.
Just when the story seemed to have shown its entire hand, it pulled out another card.
Before disappearing, Tomas imagined something considerably more pleasant than a witchcraft trial.
“One day you will all sit down at my table for wine and meat by the river in Oxford where we shall read each other’s books and laugh and we shall speak of truth and good men, watching Oxford change together for evermore.”– Message attributed to Tomas Hawarden, reproduced in Ken Webster’s The Vertical Plane
Tomas also claimed he’d write his own account of the strange correspondence and leave it somewhere it might eventually be discovered.
References:
Dodlestonmessages.wordpress.com/
Openlibrary.org/books/OL28155638M
Projectunredacted.com/dodleston-messages-transmissions-across-time