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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

Galaxy Noir: The Case of the Stellar Strangulation

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Mythology, Technology

Galaxy Noir: The Case of the Stellar Strangulation

January 17, 2017 — 6 Comments

Has Anybody Seen Where We Put the Dauphin?

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology

Has Anybody Seen Where We Put the Dauphin?

December 30, 2016 — 1 Comment

The Best Speech Never Given: Phantom of the Continental Congress

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Best Speech Never Given: Phantom of the Continental Congress

September 24, 2016 — 3 Comments

The Age of Doubt: Anomalies, Entertainment, and Wonder

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

The Age of Doubt: Anomalies, Entertainment, and Wonder

March 7, 2016 — 4 Comments

The Disappearance of Owen Parfitt: Is it Better to Burn Out or Fade Away?

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

The Disappearance of Owen Parfitt: Is it Better to Burn Out or Fade Away?

March 7, 2016 — 1 Comment

The Berkeley Mystery Walls: Scaling Impossibility

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, Mythology, Technology

The Berkeley Mystery Walls: Scaling Impossibility

November 8, 2015 — 8 Comments

The Mysterious Oxfordshire Sheep Panic of 1888

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology

The Mysterious Oxfordshire Sheep Panic of 1888

July 14, 2015 — 5 Comments

The Jimmy Buffett Effect: Island Escapism and the Goodwin Sands

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology

The Jimmy Buffett Effect: Island Escapism and the Goodwin Sands

May 25, 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