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The Bigfoot Apocalypse: It’s the End of the World as We Know It, and I Feel...
“The end approaches, but the apocalypse is long lived” – Jacques Derrida Sasquatch contemplates eternity… The physicist and the preacher are equally certain the world will one day end, although their...
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Devil’s D-Day: The Possession Plague of Morzine
“Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.” ― Mark Twain Onward to Switzerland and madness… For the better part of the past 500 years, Switzerland has been an island of calm...
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EsoterX: I’ve Got a Face Made for Radio
I recently had a two-hour conversation with one of the luminaries of strange phenomena, Greg Bishop, on his radio show radiomisterioso.com, where, among other things, we discussed: My...
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The Gods and Monsters of Free Will: An Ode to Anomalies
“I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin’s; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived” – Michelangelo Love your...
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Dead Daddy Dearest: The Ghost of Major Blomberg
“He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone” – Antonio Porchia Don’t chase ghosts. It makes you look needy.Before his marriage to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744-1818), rumor...
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My Barista was a Rosicrucian Necromancer
“Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men” – Herodotus Sometimes the dead just don’t feel like talking. The problem with being a necromancer is that you tend to alienate both the living and the...
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The Monster in the Mirror: Fear of the Public Persona
“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people” – Gilbert K. Chesterton This one’s going on Facebook. We are all public...
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Zöllner Across the Fourth Dimension
“An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere” – Albert Einstein Dr. Johann Karl...
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The Tyranny of Physicalism: You’re Either a God or a Goofball
“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination” – John Lennon We don’t have to play by your rules. Deep in the heart of darkest Forteana, you inevitably stumble across a subspecies of philosopher I like to...
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Hog Wild: Phantom Pork and Spectral Swine
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals” – Winston Churchill Ghost pigs can be strangely agreeable. Despite very nearly constituting a food group unto...
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Six Tons of Unmarked Uranium, a Rocket, and Visas for Sirius or the Earthling...
“On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break” – Robert Anton Wilson I’m innocent I tell you! I found that flying saucer...
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The Lenape-Allegewi War: A Native American Titanomachy
“As soon as I begin to want to make my thinking teleological in relation to something else, interest enters the game” – Soren Kierkegaard Fee-fie-foe-fum…History is teleology. We view all historical...
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Regressive Fallibilism: Deep in the Heart of Darkest Anomalistics
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair” – C.S....
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Marketing the Monster: Coffee and Commodified Time
“Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department” – David Packard Am I getting a percentage? I’m not a vacation kind of guy. Oh, sure I’m a consummate relaxer, but a comfy couch,...
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EsoterX: Video Killed the Radio Fortean
Yesterday, I spent an hour and a half discussing strange phenomena, Forteana, and bizarre history with the esteemed Mr. Roejen Razorwire and his partner in existential crime, Lobo on their Project...
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Causality Bites: Athenodorus and the Archetypal Haunted House
“The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck” ― Paul Virilio Cause and Effect are so last Thursday…. We take a lot of solace in the idea that things happen for a reason. You got...
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Feeding Time at the Human Zoo: Why We Never Get Invited to Extraterrestrial...
“I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign” – Carl Sagan Stop throwing peanuts at me… The Fermi Paradox, or the contradiction between high...
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We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: Anomalistics and Absurdism
“The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only” – Thomas Hobbes Now, this may seem absurd… Many an incautious person (in particular, my wife, who in all fairness has...
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Arrivederci, Earth: Space Fleets in Cygnus and the Forgotten Virtue of Being...
“Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens…On the other hand, intelligence may be a cancer of purposeless technological...
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The Ghost of Alaska’s Baranoff Castle: Love’s Labor Lost
“The heart can get really cold if all you’ve known is winter” ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz Couldn’t I just haunt Miami? Until 1867, the only non-Aleut folks crazy enough to live in Alaska were Russians, and...
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