The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

# Summary

The guys dive into the bizarre mystery of the Toynbee tiles, mysterious linoleum message tiles that have been secretly embedded in asphalt across the northeast and beyond since the mid-1980s, bearing cryptic messages about resurrecting the dead on Jupiter. Through the work of three dedicated investigators and a documentary called Resurrect Dead, they piece together that a reclusive Philadelphia man named Severino Verna appears to be behind the decades-long project, using a surprisingly ingenious method involving tar paper and asphalt filler to make these tiles slowly reveal themselves over time. Whether it's the work of a brilliant eccentric artist, a genuine visionary with a bizarre mission, or someone experiencing a mental health crisis remains delightfully unclear, making this one of the internet age's most captivating unsolved mysteries.