What initially sparked your interest in Voynich research?

[Koen G]

I read about the Voynich many years ago in an article in a magazine in a doctor's waiting room (it may have been EOS magazine). The article also treated other "mysterious" works, like the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - a known forgery. 

(The contrast between the Voynich and books like the Oera Linda is interesting in the whole 'forgery' debate as well, most tellingly that the latter, like all forgeries I know of, is clearly "trying to be something", namely a Frisian mythology).

A few years later, I somehow remembered this article, and I wondered if the Voynich had been solved already. This happened to be in the "Bax era", when many of us seem to have gotten interested. What I found the most appealing, apart from the object itself, was the fact that there was still very little scientific consensus despite the manuscript containing a wealth of material. That a mystery like that could still exist in the 21st century. 

So I guess what initially sparked my interest in Voynich research is the fact that an exceptional item like this exists, and the desire to learn more about it.