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Greeting the Unknown Guest: Party Crasher or Host?

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

Greeting the Unknown Guest: Party Crasher or Host?

February 28, 2018 — 1 Comment

I Was a Skeptic, But I’m All Better Now

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

I Was a Skeptic, But I’m All Better Now

February 19, 2018 — 8 Comments

The Devil Went Down to Dartmoor: Remedial Tort Law for Imps

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Devil Went Down to Dartmoor: Remedial Tort Law for Imps

February 18, 2018 — 2 Comments

Tell Us a Ghost Story, Mummy: Khonsuemheb and the Whiny Ghost

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Tell Us a Ghost Story, Mummy: Khonsuemheb and the Whiny Ghost

February 16, 2018 — 3 Comments

Getting the Steamboat Willies: The Phantom of Raccourci Cutoff

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, Mythology

Getting the Steamboat Willies: The Phantom of Raccourci Cutoff

January 15, 2018 — 0 Comments

A Zillion Years of Solitude: The Loneliness of the Anthropic Universe

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

A Zillion Years of Solitude: The Loneliness of the Anthropic Universe

January 2, 2018 — 14 Comments

How to Con Your Conquistador: The Question of Quivira

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Mythology

How to Con Your Conquistador: The Question of Quivira

December 31, 2017 — 0 Comments

Death by Dining: An Unbalanced Day’s Breakfast

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Technology

Death by Dining: An Unbalanced Day’s Breakfast

December 23, 2017 — 3 Comments

The Best Dressed Anomalist on Radio

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Technology

The Best Dressed Anomalist on Radio

December 13, 2017 — 0 Comments

Wärndorfer and the Poltergeist of Lerchenfelderstrasse 158

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Wärndorfer and the Poltergeist of Lerchenfelderstrasse 158

December 7, 2017 — 3 Comments

Radio Free EsoterX: Obscure Ghost Ships

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Technology

Radio Free EsoterX: Obscure Ghost Ships

December 5, 2017 — 0 Comments

The Bedevilment of Benvenuto Cellini

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Bedevilment of Benvenuto Cellini

November 27, 2017 — 4 Comments

Hell is for Railroad Telegraphers

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult, Technology

Hell is for Railroad Telegraphers

November 13, 2017 — 1 Comment

Love and Longing in Ancient Amphipolis: Dating the Dead

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Love and Longing in Ancient Amphipolis: Dating the Dead

November 13, 2017 — 1 Comment

The Saint Shortage: How to Succeed in Heaven Without Really Trying

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology

The Saint Shortage: How to Succeed in Heaven Without Really Trying

November 6, 2017 — 3 Comments

Friends Don’t Let Friends Hunt Ghosts: The Dogged Haunting of Ballechin House

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Friends Don’t Let Friends Hunt Ghosts: The Dogged Haunting of Ballechin House

October 31, 2017 — 2 Comments

Forsaking Zalmoxis: Where do Broken Gods Go?

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

Forsaking Zalmoxis: Where do Broken Gods Go?

October 29, 2017 — 2 Comments

Fishy Phenomena: Unidentified Submarine Objects and Sea Serpents

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

Fishy Phenomena: Unidentified Submarine Objects and Sea Serpents

October 24, 2017 — 5 Comments

Picnic in Pridade no Maranhao: The Legal Empire of the Ants

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

Picnic in Pridade no Maranhao: The Legal Empire of the Ants

October 18, 2017 — 1 Comment

Putting Down the Paranormal, or Sailing the Ship of Theseus until it Sinks

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

Putting Down the Paranormal, or Sailing the Ship of Theseus until it Sinks

October 16, 2017 — 0 Comments

Internship of the Undead: Christopher Monig, Afterlife Apothecary

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Internship of the Undead: Christopher Monig, Afterlife Apothecary

September 29, 2017 — 5 Comments

For Whom the Phantom Bells Toll: Major Moor and the Sorites Paradox

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

For Whom the Phantom Bells Toll: Major Moor and the Sorites Paradox

September 26, 2017 — 3 Comments

Turtles to the Left of Me, Turtles to the Right: The Practopoietic Loop of Causation

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

Turtles to the Left of Me, Turtles to the Right: The Practopoietic Loop of Causation

September 12, 2017 — 0 Comments

Fowl Play: The Trial of a Sorcerous Swiss Rooster

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Fowl Play: The Trial of a Sorcerous Swiss Rooster

September 6, 2017 — 3 Comments

If It Weren’t for those Meddling Squids

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

If It Weren’t for those Meddling Squids

August 29, 2017 — 3 Comments

No Taxation without Predestination: The Phantom Battle of Utrecht

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology

No Taxation without Predestination: The Phantom Battle of Utrecht

August 28, 2017 — 3 Comments

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

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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

“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