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How to Feel Normal in an Anomalistic Universe

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Philosophy

How to Feel Normal in an Anomalistic Universe

December 1, 2015 — 11 Comments

The Pied Piper of Transylvania: Tripping Over Fairy Tales

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

The Pied Piper of Transylvania: Tripping Over Fairy Tales

November 13, 2015 — 9 Comments

A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Way Too Far Away

Anthropology, History, Technology

A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Way Too Far Away

November 10, 2015 — 10 Comments

The Berkeley Mystery Walls: Scaling Impossibility

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, Mythology, Technology

The Berkeley Mystery Walls: Scaling Impossibility

November 8, 2015 — 8 Comments

The Angry Spirit of Castle Slawensik: An Open Letter to Poltergeists

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Occult, Philosophy

The Angry Spirit of Castle Slawensik: An Open Letter to Poltergeists

November 6, 2015 — 6 Comments

Love Song from the Grave: Balthazzarini, Henry III, and N.G. Bach

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Occult

Love Song from the Grave: Balthazzarini, Henry III, and N.G. Bach

November 4, 2015 — 6 Comments

Something is Awry in Scythia: Ancient Defensive Earthworks in Kazakhstan

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Technology

Something is Awry in Scythia: Ancient Defensive Earthworks in Kazakhstan

November 3, 2015 — 4 Comments

The Digital Crowd: Making a Modern Monster?

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

The Digital Crowd: Making a Modern Monster?

November 2, 2015 — 2 Comments

Jack of the Lantern: In Search of Transcendental Loopholes

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Jack of the Lantern: In Search of Transcendental Loopholes

October 30, 2015 — 1 Comment

Paranormalization: Don’t Go Back to Buncombe

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

Paranormalization: Don’t Go Back to Buncombe

October 29, 2015 — 4 Comments

The Goblin Jesuit of Lopatcong: Ghosts Believe in You

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Occult, Philosophy

The Goblin Jesuit of Lopatcong: Ghosts Believe in You

October 27, 2015 — 2 Comments

The Curse of the Charles Haskell: Strange Attractors, Creep Factors, and the Advantages of Asymmetry

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Philosophy

The Curse of the Charles Haskell: Strange Attractors, Creep Factors, and the Advantages of Asymmetry

October 25, 2015 — 1 Comment

The Ghost of Alaska’s Baranoff Castle: Love’s Labor Lost

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters

The Ghost of Alaska’s Baranoff Castle: Love’s Labor Lost

October 21, 2015 — 1 Comment

An Afterlife Buddy System: The Preternatural Pact of Bezuel and Desfontaines

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Occult

An Afterlife Buddy System: The Preternatural Pact of Bezuel and Desfontaines

October 16, 2015 — 2 Comments

Arrivederci, Earth: Space Fleets in Cygnus and the Forgotten Virtue of Being Quiet

Anthropology, Monsters, Philosophy, Technology

Arrivederci, Earth: Space Fleets in Cygnus and the Forgotten Virtue of Being Quiet

October 15, 2015 — 11 Comments

We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: Anomalistics and Absurdism

Anthropology, Folklore, Monsters, Philosophy

We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: Anomalistics and Absurdism

October 14, 2015 — 5 Comments

John Ruskin and Chamounix: The Convenient Teleology of Insanity

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Occult, Philosophy

John Ruskin and Chamounix: The Convenient Teleology of Insanity

October 13, 2015 — 4 Comments

Feeding Time at the Human Zoo: Why We Never Get Invited to Extraterrestrial Parties

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Philosophy

Feeding Time at the Human Zoo: Why We Never Get Invited to Extraterrestrial Parties

September 28, 2015 — 10 Comments

Causality Bites: Athenodorus and the Archetypal Haunted House

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Philosophy

Causality Bites: Athenodorus and the Archetypal Haunted House

September 24, 2015 — 2 Comments

EsoterX: Video Killed the Radio Fortean

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult, Philosophy, Technology

EsoterX: Video Killed the Radio Fortean

September 20, 2015 — 1 Comment

There’s a Hole in the Bucket, Dear Plato

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, Mythology, Technology

There’s a Hole in the Bucket, Dear Plato

September 12, 2015 — 2 Comments

My Ontology is Bigger than Yours: Pseudocriticism of Pseudosciences

Anthropology, History, Philosophy

My Ontology is Bigger than Yours: Pseudocriticism of Pseudosciences

September 9, 2015 — 7 Comments

The Devilish Jurisprudence of Barnaby v. Booty: Judge Not, Lest Thy be Sued

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Occult

The Devilish Jurisprudence of Barnaby v. Booty: Judge Not, Lest Thy be Sued

September 2, 2015 — 1 Comment

Scapeghosting: Don’t Blame the Dead Guy

Folklore, History, Technology

Scapeghosting: Don’t Blame the Dead Guy

August 28, 2015 — 0 Comments

Marketing the Monster: Coffee and Commodified Time

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Philosophy

Marketing the Monster: Coffee and Commodified Time

August 27, 2015 — 2 Comments

Regressive Fallibilism: Deep in the Heart of Darkest Anomalistics

Anthropology, Monsters, Philosophy

Regressive Fallibilism: Deep in the Heart of Darkest Anomalistics

August 11, 2015 — 2 Comments

The Problem with a Rude Singularity

Anthropology, History, Technology

The Problem with a Rude Singularity

August 10, 2015 — 2 Comments

Wasted Witchcraft: Can I at Least Get Some Flying Monkeys?

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult

Wasted Witchcraft: Can I at Least Get Some Flying Monkeys?

August 10, 2015 — 4 Comments

Bad Habits: The 15th Century Nun Biting Mania

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult

Bad Habits: The 15th Century Nun Biting Mania

August 5, 2015 — 2 Comments

Monstrously Disruptive Technology: Don’t Turn Your Back on the Toaster

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Technology

Monstrously Disruptive Technology: Don’t Turn Your Back on the Toaster

August 3, 2015 — 79 Comments

Rationalists are Harshing My Empiricist Mellow

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult

Rationalists are Harshing My Empiricist Mellow

July 28, 2015 — 5 Comments

Don’t Be a Menace to Hammersmith While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology

Don’t Be a Menace to Hammersmith While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

July 27, 2015 — 0 Comments

The Lenape-Allegewi War: A Native American Titanomachy

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

The Lenape-Allegewi War: A Native American Titanomachy

July 19, 2015 — 3 Comments

Morgan Andrew Robertson, the Paraldehyde Prophet of Oswego

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology

Morgan Andrew Robertson, the Paraldehyde Prophet of Oswego

July 16, 2015 — 1 Comment

Six Tons of Unmarked Uranium, a Rocket, and Visas for Sirius or the Earthling Gets It

Anthropology, Monsters

Six Tons of Unmarked Uranium, a Rocket, and Visas for Sirius or the Earthling Gets It

July 15, 2015 — 2 Comments

The Mysterious Oxfordshire Sheep Panic of 1888

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology

The Mysterious Oxfordshire Sheep Panic of 1888

July 14, 2015 — 5 Comments

Our Ancient Multiverse: The Cosmic Pluralism of Anaximander, Leucippus, Democritus, and Epicurus

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology

Our Ancient Multiverse: The Cosmic Pluralism of Anaximander, Leucippus, Democritus, and Epicurus

July 14, 2015 — 1 Comment

My Brother’s Reaper: Ling Look and Yamadeva

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult

My Brother’s Reaper: Ling Look and Yamadeva

July 13, 2015 — 1 Comment

Head Cases: Anomalous Monism and Strange Phenomena

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology

Head Cases: Anomalous Monism and Strange Phenomena

July 7, 2015 — 3 Comments

Democratic Devils in a Rival Universe

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology

Democratic Devils in a Rival Universe

July 4, 2015 — 1 Comment

“It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry ‘Monster!’ and looked behind him.”
-Laini Taylor

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
-Oscar Wilde

“Life is Hard. After all, it kills you.”
-Katherine Hepburn

“Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.”
-Theodor Adorno

“All would be well. All would be heavenly–If the damned would only stay damned.”
-Charles Fort

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”
–Jerry Garcia

“You can’t create a monster, then whine when it stomps a few buildings.”
–Yeardley Smith

“Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.”
–Robert Anton Wilson

“The earth, it has been said, is one vast graveyard, and man can nowhere put down his foot without stepping on the remains of a brother.”
–M. Schele de Vere

“Even from the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.”
–H.P. Lovecraft

“If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?”
–Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“The problem with people who say monsters don’t really exist is that they’re almost never saying it to the monsters.”
— Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon

“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean there isn’t an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
–Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.”
–Eric Hoffer, American Social Philosopher

“The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.”
–Günter Grass, German Novelist