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Make America Ghostly Again: The Demon Cat of Washington D.C.

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Make America Ghostly Again: The Demon Cat of Washington D.C.

August 16, 2017 — 7 Comments

Asylum Earth: The Voices in My Head are Scientists

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

Asylum Earth: The Voices in My Head are Scientists

August 14, 2017 — 3 Comments

I’ve Been Working on the Creepy Railroad

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

I’ve Been Working on the Creepy Railroad

July 31, 2017 — 2 Comments

All Your Axioms are Postulates: Pseudoscience vs. Pseudometaphysics

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

All Your Axioms are Postulates: Pseudoscience vs. Pseudometaphysics

July 25, 2017 — 3 Comments

Head Games: The Revenge of a Kalinga Ghost

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Head Games: The Revenge of a Kalinga Ghost

July 19, 2017 — 0 Comments

The Enchanted Universe and Its Enemies

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

The Enchanted Universe and Its Enemies

July 12, 2017 — 2 Comments

5 Rules for Dating My Classical Arcadian Werewolf

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

5 Rules for Dating My Classical Arcadian Werewolf

July 11, 2017 — 2 Comments

Dame of Doom: The White Lady of the Hohenzollerns

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Dame of Doom: The White Lady of the Hohenzollerns

July 10, 2017 — 0 Comments

I Found Seven Skeletons in My Dining Room in 1874

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

I Found Seven Skeletons in My Dining Room in 1874

July 4, 2017 — 1 Comment

Eternalism vs. Presentism: How Soon is Now?

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

Eternalism vs. Presentism: How Soon is Now?

June 29, 2017 — 1 Comment

Peter Plogojovitz: Barefoot Vampire or Shoeless Ghost?

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Peter Plogojovitz: Barefoot Vampire or Shoeless Ghost?

June 28, 2017 — 2 Comments

Captain Yount’s Mountain Rescue Dream Team

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult

Captain Yount’s Mountain Rescue Dream Team

June 25, 2017 — 0 Comments

Close Encounters of the Puritan Kind

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Technology

Close Encounters of the Puritan Kind

June 22, 2017 — 0 Comments

What Dreams May Come from Herr Wesermann?

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

What Dreams May Come from Herr Wesermann?

June 17, 2017 — 0 Comments

Release the Calamari: Hans Egede and the Greenland Kraken

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

Release the Calamari: Hans Egede and the Greenland Kraken

June 13, 2017 — 4 Comments

James Campbell Besley and the Amazing Amazonian Telegraph

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Mythology, Technology

James Campbell Besley and the Amazing Amazonian Telegraph

June 11, 2017 — 0 Comments

General Barter and the Ghost Who Dressed for Dinner

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

General Barter and the Ghost Who Dressed for Dinner

June 7, 2017 — 1 Comment

If It Weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, We’d Still be Eating Frozen Radio Dinners

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

If It Weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, We’d Still be Eating Frozen Radio Dinners

June 6, 2017 — 0 Comments

Fear No Evil When You Walk through Oberlin’s Valley of Death

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Fear No Evil When You Walk through Oberlin’s Valley of Death

June 4, 2017 — 0 Comments

When a Volcano Erupts and Nobody Hears it does the Climate Change?

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Mythology

When a Volcano Erupts and Nobody Hears it does the Climate Change?

May 29, 2017 — 1 Comment

Our Furry Forefathers: The Basque History of Inter-species Relations

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

Our Furry Forefathers: The Basque History of Inter-species Relations

May 29, 2017 — 3 Comments

The Ecstasy of Error: Green Cards in Magonia

Anthropology, Folklore, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

The Ecstasy of Error: Green Cards in Magonia

May 25, 2017 — 1 Comment

Diabolus in Musica: The Devil is in the Dissonance

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Diabolus in Musica: The Devil is in the Dissonance

May 19, 2017 — 2 Comments

Haunted House Hunting with Mrs. Butler

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Haunted House Hunting with Mrs. Butler

May 3, 2017 — 0 Comments

Bugging Out During the Second Great Dying

Anthropology, History, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

Bugging Out During the Second Great Dying

April 30, 2017 — 4 Comments

The Bottle Smashing Ghost of Via Bava No. 6

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Bottle Smashing Ghost of Via Bava No. 6

March 24, 2017 — 2 Comments

Quantum Entangled Escargot: Sympathy for the Snail Telegraph

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult, Technology

Quantum Entangled Escargot: Sympathy for the Snail Telegraph

March 16, 2017 — 2 Comments

Tempting Fate at Ticonderoga: Major Duncan Campbell and The Black Watch

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Tempting Fate at Ticonderoga: Major Duncan Campbell and The Black Watch

March 9, 2017 — 0 Comments

Lies, Damn Lies, and Anomalies: Fake News and Skeptical Schadenfreude

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

Lies, Damn Lies, and Anomalies: Fake News and Skeptical Schadenfreude

March 8, 2017 — 3 Comments

Divine Messaging for Fun and Prophet

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult, Philosophy

Divine Messaging for Fun and Prophet

March 2, 2017 — 1 Comment

Outsourced Morality: The Conscience-Formed Phantom Drums for You

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Outsourced Morality: The Conscience-Formed Phantom Drums for You

February 28, 2017 — 1 Comment

An Oasis in the Desert of the Real: Looking for Zerzura

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Mythology

An Oasis in the Desert of the Real: Looking for Zerzura

February 21, 2017 — 3 Comments

Prosecuting a Poltergeist: The Defamation Trial of the Curé of Cideville

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Prosecuting a Poltergeist: The Defamation Trial of the Curé of Cideville

February 16, 2017 — 0 Comments

The Specious Present: It’s the Size of the Moment that Matters

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The Specious Present: It’s the Size of the Moment that Matters

February 10, 2017 — 0 Comments

Our Colonized Consciousness: Defense Against the Doppelgänger

Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

Our Colonized Consciousness: Defense Against the Doppelgänger

February 9, 2017 — 6 Comments

He Knows Where the Bodies are Buried: Gottlieb Pfeffel and the Billing Perplex

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult

He Knows Where the Bodies are Buried: Gottlieb Pfeffel and the Billing Perplex

February 7, 2017 — 2 Comments

The Doppelganger is Ready for His Close-up

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Doppelganger is Ready for His Close-up

January 31, 2017 — 0 Comments

EsoterX: Podcasts are the Retina of the Mind’s Eye

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult, Philosophy

EsoterX: Podcasts are the Retina of the Mind’s Eye

January 30, 2017 — 0 Comments

Doomsday will be Dry: The Water Clock of the Apocalypse

Anthropology, Geography, History, Mythology, Technology

Doomsday will be Dry: The Water Clock of the Apocalypse

January 27, 2017 — 2 Comments

Statutory Murder: The Trial of Theagenes of Thasos

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

Statutory Murder: The Trial of Theagenes of Thasos

January 25, 2017 — 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