Picnic in Pridade no Maranhao: The Legal Empire of the Ants
“The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn’t know enough to take a vacation” – Clarence Day The notion …
Category Archives: Monsters
Putting Down the Paranormal, or Sailing the Ship of Theseus until it Sinks
“I have an existential map. It has ‘You are here’ written all over it” – Stephen Wright People believe some …
Internship of the Undead: Christopher Monig, Afterlife Apothecary
“I would make bold to opine, that here the most fretful and malicious ghost, that ever begrudged the living their …
Turtles to the Left of Me, Turtles to the Right: The Practopoietic Loop of Causation
“I believe nothing, I have shut myself away from the rocks and wisdoms of ages, and from the so-called great …
Fowl Play: The Trial of a Sorcerous Swiss Rooster
“You can be a rooster one day and a feather duster the next” – Frank McManus We really despise disorder. …
If It Weren’t for those Meddling Squids
“Squid experts have been debating for some time about whether the giant squid is a passive predator that just floats …
Make America Ghostly Again: The Demon Cat of Washington D.C.
“Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched” – Miguel de Cervantes Has anyone ever considered the possibility …
Asylum Earth: The Voices in My Head are Scientists
“Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true” – Niels Bohr We’re smart. We’re handsome. We …
I’ve Been Working on the Creepy Railroad
“When people say that the Internet is going to make us all geniuses, that was said about the telegraph. On …
Head Games: The Revenge of a Kalinga Ghost
“If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t …
5 Rules for Dating My Classical Arcadian Werewolf
“Some werewolves are hairy on the inside” ― Stephen King The werewolf lifestyle is often drawn in caricature. One has …
Dame of Doom: The White Lady of the Hohenzollerns
“Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, …
I Found Seven Skeletons in My Dining Room in 1874
“I can’t tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house” – Matthew Tobin Anderson …
Peter Plogojovitz: Barefoot Vampire or Shoeless Ghost?
“They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes” – Imelda …
Close Encounters of the Puritan Kind
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy” ― H.L. Mencken We know that 17th Century New England …
What Dreams May Come from Herr Wesermann?
“New roads; new ruts” – Gilbert K. Chesterton Sigmund Freud once referred to dreams as the “royal road to the …
Release the Calamari: Hans Egede and the Greenland Kraken
“Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty” – Brian Greene On the internet, nobody can hear you scream. Unless you use …
General Barter and the Ghost Who Dressed for Dinner
“They say that shadows of deceased ghosts do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life’s lamp …
If It Weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, We’d Still be Eating Frozen Radio Dinners
Veteran anomalist Seriah Azkath and I spend an hour discussing the vagaries of strange history, the War between the Pygmies …
Fear No Evil When You Walk through Oberlin’s Valley of Death
“Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted” – Percy Bysshe Shelley …
Our Furry Forefathers: The Basque History of Inter-species Relations
“When the fox is engaging you in conversation, keep an eye on your chicken” – Basque Proverb The Basque people …
The Ecstasy of Error: Green Cards in Magonia
“It is then that ceasing to take the natural, the spiritual view of the world and its waywardness, he takes …
Diabolus in Musica: The Devil is in the Dissonance
“Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the …
Haunted House Hunting with Mrs. Butler
“It is curious to think that what to one of us means so much to another is without any signification. …
The Bottle Smashing Ghost of Via Bava No. 6
“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine” – Eduardo Galeano The problem with …
Tempting Fate at Ticonderoga: Major Duncan Campbell and The Black Watch
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality” – Edgar Allan Poe Names …
Outsourced Morality: The Conscience-Formed Phantom Drums for You
“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not …
Prosecuting a Poltergeist: The Defamation Trial of the Curé of Cideville
“These days, there are angry ghosts all around us – dead from wars, sickness, starvation – and nobody cares. So …
Our Colonized Consciousness: Defense Against the Doppelgänger
“If you meet your double, you should kill him” – Chris Cabin, Double Take The marketing potential with doppelgängers is …
The Doppelganger is Ready for His Close-up
Miracle Max: He probably owes you money huh? I’ll ask him. Inigo Montoya: He’s dead. He can’t talk. Miracle Max: …
Combat Cats, Tactical Mice, and Special Forces Fish in Pelusium
“Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, …
I Left My Heart in the Vanished Kingdom of Chicora
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started …
The Devil’s Paparazzi: Spinello’s Unflattering Portrait of Lucifer
“A great portrait is always more a portrait of the painter than of the painted” – Samuel Butler One of …
Eternal Love and Other Supernatural Phenomena
“We have a love affair with the idea of the ‘natural,’ even though we, as a species, are about as …
Sympathetic Empiricism and the Palatine Lights
“Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response” – Arthur M. Schlesinger How many …
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: In the Footsteps of the Hairy People
“There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right” ― Edward Abbey I’ve come to the …
Wooden Ships, Iron Men, and Occasional Sea Serpents
“Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness” – Werner Herzog A …
The Headless Hitchhiker of St. Leonard’s Forest
“We live in a cult of the upgrade right now. There’s always something around the corner that will make whatever …
EsoterX at the Movies: Honoré Mirabel’s Gold-Sniffing Ghost
Spare the Rodenstein, Spoil the Schnellert: What to do about a Phantom like Maria?
“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future” – Niels Bohr Some people don’t think of German as …
