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Reflections on Fata Morgana and the H.M.S. Barracouta

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Mythology, Philosophy

Reflections on Fata Morgana and the H.M.S. Barracouta

January 18, 2021 — 2 Comments

The Fire Inside Willie Brough

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Fire Inside Willie Brough

June 23, 2020 — 2 Comments

Sense and Supersensibility: The Procession of the Damned

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

Sense and Supersensibility: The Procession of the Damned

May 4, 2020 — 6 Comments

Bertholi is Burning: Deliberate Human Combustion

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

Bertholi is Burning: Deliberate Human Combustion

April 11, 2020 — 4 Comments

Human Salamanders: Check the Expiration Date on Your Superpowers

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Human Salamanders: Check the Expiration Date on Your Superpowers

September 4, 2019 — 2 Comments

The Sleeping Preacher of North Alabama

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Sleeping Preacher of North Alabama

June 29, 2019 — 2 Comments

Anomalistic’s Faustian Bargain with Goethian Science

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

Anomalistic’s Faustian Bargain with Goethian Science

June 11, 2019 — 0 Comments

Anomalous Airwaves: In My Defense, I was Left Unsupervised

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Anomalous Airwaves: In My Defense, I was Left Unsupervised

February 18, 2019 — 0 Comments

The Casper Constant: Ghosts as Natural Phenomena

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

The Casper Constant: Ghosts as Natural Phenomena

February 12, 2019 — 3 Comments

Some Phantasms are Just Phoning It In

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

Some Phantasms are Just Phoning It In

January 31, 2019 — 1 Comment

Wherever You Go, There You Were: A Vardøger Goes to Tipperary

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Wherever You Go, There You Were: A Vardøger Goes to Tipperary

January 3, 2019 — 1 Comment

Captain Monckton’s Invisible Guest

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Monsters, Mythology

Captain Monckton’s Invisible Guest

July 1, 2018 — 0 Comments

The Electric Girls of Smyrna

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult

The Electric Girls of Smyrna

June 3, 2018 — 1 Comment

The Observer at Infinity: J.W. Dunne vs. the Volcano

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The Observer at Infinity: J.W. Dunne vs. the Volcano

April 15, 2018 — 0 Comments

Astral Projection for the Discriminating Dog

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Astral Projection for the Discriminating Dog

March 27, 2018 — 1 Comment

A Few Good Anomalists: You Can’t Handle the Vacuous Truth

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

A Few Good Anomalists: You Can’t Handle the Vacuous Truth

March 19, 2018 — 4 Comments

Greeting the Unknown Guest: Party Crasher or Host?

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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

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

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

January 2, 2018 — 14 Comments

The Best Dressed Anomalist on Radio

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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

Fishy Phenomena: Unidentified Submarine Objects and Sea Serpents

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Fishy Phenomena: Unidentified Submarine Objects and Sea Serpents

October 24, 2017 — 5 Comments

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

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

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

September 12, 2017 — 0 Comments

If It Weren’t for those Meddling Squids

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If It Weren’t for those Meddling Squids

August 29, 2017 — 3 Comments

All Your Axioms are Postulates: Pseudoscience vs. Pseudometaphysics

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All Your Axioms are Postulates: Pseudoscience vs. Pseudometaphysics

July 25, 2017 — 3 Comments

The Enchanted Universe and Its Enemies

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The Enchanted Universe and Its Enemies

July 12, 2017 — 2 Comments

Eternalism vs. Presentism: How Soon is Now?

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Eternalism vs. Presentism: How Soon is Now?

June 29, 2017 — 1 Comment

Peter Plogojovitz: Barefoot Vampire or Shoeless Ghost?

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Peter Plogojovitz: Barefoot Vampire or Shoeless Ghost?

June 28, 2017 — 2 Comments

Captain Yount’s Mountain Rescue Dream Team

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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?

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What Dreams May Come from Herr Wesermann?

June 17, 2017 — 0 Comments

Release the Calamari: Hans Egede and the Greenland Kraken

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Release the Calamari: Hans Egede and the Greenland Kraken

June 13, 2017 — 4 Comments

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

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

June 6, 2017 — 0 Comments

The Ecstasy of Error: Green Cards in Magonia

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The Ecstasy of Error: Green Cards in Magonia

May 25, 2017 — 1 Comment

Quantum Entangled Escargot: Sympathy for the Snail Telegraph

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Quantum Entangled Escargot: Sympathy for the Snail Telegraph

March 16, 2017 — 2 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

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

“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