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The Paradox of Credibility When Confronting the Incredible

AP StrangeNov 20, 202317 min read
The Paradox of Credibility When Confronting the Incredible

 The tinfoil hat, the country bumpkin, the cork board strewn with a tangled web of string- these are examples of images used in the old…

The Journey of the Fool

AP StrangeNov 11, 202310 min read
The Journey of the Fool

The Major Arcana of the Tarot is filled with timeless images of mysterious origin, each numbered and offering a plethora of interpretations for the purpose…

Guest Post: The Devil Rides Side-Saddle, Elon has a Stroke Whilst Mrs. Peel Limbers Up by Steve Mills

AP StrangeOct 28, 20238 min read
Guest Post: The Devil Rides Side-Saddle, Elon has a Stroke Whilst Mrs. Peel Limbers Up by Steve Mills

 The following is a guest post by the one and only Reverend StarDoG, Steve Mills, which nicely pairs with the recent Universal Monster movie post for your…

The Children of the Monsters You Couldn’t Mash – The Universal Appeal of the Undead

AP StrangeOct 23, 202324 min read
The Children of the Monsters You Couldn’t Mash – The Universal Appeal of the Undead

“It’s alive!”We all know the line Dr. Frankenstein shouts in maniacal glee. Thunder crashes outside the castle walls as if in response, heightening the drama…

Introducing: The Holy Donut Revival Hour!

AP StrangeOct 8, 20232 min read
Introducing: The Holy Donut Revival Hour!

Friends! I am happy to formally announce here that my bestie SJ and I have teamed up to bring you The Holy Donut Revival Hour-…

Nestled in the Holy Bosom of Bigfoot

AP StrangeSep 30, 202313 min read
Nestled in the Holy Bosom of Bigfoot

Bigfoot is, well, big these days. The legendary cryptid seems to be enjoying a renaissance of a sort; the iconic profile in mid-step appears on…

The Marlborough Mystery and the Bones of the 23 Enigma

AP StrangeSep 23, 202310 min read
The Marlborough Mystery and the Bones of the 23 Enigma

 In November of 1913, a ship called the Johnson made a gruesome discovery. While traveling past a cove off the coast of Chile, they spotted a…

The Fox and the Faculty X Files

AP StrangeSep 10, 202313 min read
The Fox and the Faculty X Files

There can be no doubt that Fox Broadcasting Company has had a massive impact on culture, especially in the United States. While broadly this has…

Wight Magic and the Sandown Ghost Clown

AP StrangeSep 4, 202316 min read
Wight Magic and the Sandown Ghost Clown

Often in media, ghost activity is presented as occurring in a place where violent deaths or at least trauma has occurred. Other times, cemeteries are…

Blue Moons, Blue Lights, and Elvis Disclosure

AP StrangeAug 30, 20234 min read
Blue Moons, Blue Lights, and Elvis Disclosure

 “Blue Moon, Now I’m no longer aloneWithout a dream in my heartWithout a love of my own…”At the time of this writing, we are on the…

The Esoteric Secrets of the Three Stooges

AP StrangeJul 16, 202312 min read
The Esoteric Secrets of the Three Stooges

There are, on occasion, people and things within the scope of our collective cultural reference that loom so large that they become an omnipresent, subliminal…

Presenting: Strange Words for a Weird World!

AP StrangeJul 10, 20231 min read
Presenting: Strange Words for a Weird World!

 For those who enjoy my writing here on the blog, please consider checking out this little eBook I put together on gumroad. Publishing my writing here…

A Hand Full of Wyrd

AP StrangeJul 3, 202310 min read
A Hand Full of Wyrd

Cheiromancy, the art of reading palms, has one of the most classic fortune telling motifs. The idea that the entire course of one’s life can…

Doomsday Predictions Ain’t Rocket Science!

AP StrangeJul 2, 20239 min read
Doomsday Predictions Ain’t Rocket Science!

 On an October evening in 1899, a boy climbed a cherry tree to trim some branches, a task given to him by his parents. While…

UFO Rope Tricks and Threads From Nowhere

AP StrangeMay 21, 20239 min read
The Weirdo Collective

We all love a good yarn, and anyone who has looked into mysterious phenomena with any degree of honest inquiry is well familiar with those…

Emanations From the Clown Realm- Legend Tripping, Hilarious Magic, and Synchronicity

AP StrangeMay 7, 20238 min read
Emanations From the Clown Realm- Legend Tripping, Hilarious Magic, and Synchronicity

Clowns and clowning around have long been a theme on this blog. Some of my earliest posts on here concerned my fascination with them, in…

Exorcism Extravaganza!

AP StrangeApr 23, 202312 min read
Exorcism Extravaganza!

(The following first appeared in the March 2023 issue of Paranormality Magazine.) The word “Exorcism” brings to mind familiar images largely borne out of pop culture…

Fishin’ for the Truth – a Brief Dip into Fiction. Or is it?

AP StrangeApr 2, 20234 min read
Fishin’ for the Truth – a Brief Dip into Fiction. Or is it?

For all intents and purposes, the following story is a work of fiction- but I have it on good authority from the Extradimensional Narrator that…

Full of Hot Air- Ruminations on UFOs and those Numinous Balloons

AP StrangeFeb 12, 202311 min read
The Weirdo Collective

 At the time I sat down to write this, news and social media had been all abuzz about a Chinese spy balloon seen floating across…

A Halloween Treat – Destiny of the Wolf

AP StrangeOct 23, 20222 min read
A Halloween Treat – Destiny of the Wolf

As a Halloween treat this year, I decided to write a story! Being a big Bela Lugosi fan, it always kind of bummed me out that…

Bad Movies For Bad People Vol. I

AP StrangeSep 18, 20229 min read
Bad Movies For Bad People Vol. I

Bad Movies For Bad PeopleThis past April, I lost my best friend Jeff Siegrist. Jeff was many things to many people, as I elucidated in my…

Who – Or What— Is "Outreach"?

AP StrangeSep 11, 20223 min read
The Weirdo Collective

 A brief post, while I’m thinking about it…You see, an informant that I’m not at liberty to disclose the name of alerted me to the…

Elvis by the Numbers or: The King and the Tower of Death

AP StrangeAug 15, 202210 min read
Elvis by the Numbers or: The King and the Tower of Death

 It’s been 45 years since Elvis left the building one final time. August 16, 1977, Elvis Aaron Presley was found dead in the bathroom of…

The Local Flying Saucer Report, 1947

AP StrangeJun 24, 20223 min read
The Local Flying Saucer Report, 1947

 It’s been 75 years since a man named Kenneth Arnold witnessed anomalous flying objects from the cockpit of his plane, and the ensuing media frenzy…

Forteana for a Froggy Evening

AP StrangeFeb 4, 20229 min read
The Weirdo Collective

Frogs hold a special place in the annals of Forteana – Charles Fort documented cases of frogs falling from the sky in his book that…

"You’re Just Like a Little Child Chasing a Balloon into the Sunset" – Guest Post by Steve Mills

AP StrangeJul 10, 202113 min read
"You’re Just Like a Little Child Chasing a Balloon into the Sunset" – Guest Post by Steve Mills

The following is a guest post by my good friend Steve Mills, aka the Most Reverend StarDog. He has some thoughts and research to share…

From Brooklyn to Neptune: The Bugs Bunny / UFO Connection!

AP StrangeFeb 28, 202110 min read
From Brooklyn to Neptune: The Bugs Bunny / UFO Connection!

 On July 27, 1940, Bugs Bunny appeared for the first time in movie theaters in the Tex Avery directed cartoon A Wild Hare. Earlier versions…

The Curious Case of the Fish Doctor and the Man From Ashtar Galactic Command, Part III

AP StrangeJan 21, 202011 min read
The Curious Case of the Fish Doctor and the Man From Ashtar Galactic Command, Part III

“…one call came through claiming to be from Outer Space; the rather-stunned telephonist on the exchange put the call through to the only phone that…

The Curious Case of the Fish Doctor and the Man From Ashtar Galactic Command, Part II

AP StrangeDec 5, 20196 min read
The Curious Case of the Fish Doctor and the Man From Ashtar Galactic Command, Part II

“The Path has, absolutely has: to be forged, not merely followed; alone- quite alone; by the seeker.” – Rex Dutta, Reality of Occult / Yoga…

The Curious Case of the Fish Doctor and the Man From Ashtar Galactic Command, Part I

AP StrangeNov 26, 20197 min read
The Curious Case of the Fish Doctor and the Man From Ashtar Galactic Command, Part I

“For many years you have seen us as lights in the skies. We speak to you now in peace and wisdom as we have done…

Of Grumpy Cats and Alternate Realities

AP StrangeMay 18, 20196 min read
Of Grumpy Cats and Alternate Realities

On Friday, May 17th, the news hit the internet that celebrity pet and meme legend Grumpy Cat had passed away, due to complications from a…

Some Other Sphere Podcast Appearance

AP StrangeMay 2, 20191 min read
Some Other Sphere Podcast Appearance

via GIPHY It’s my pleasure to announce that the episode of the podcast Some Other Sphere wherein host Rick Palmer interviewed me about Discordianism is now…

Clowns to the Left of Me, Joker to the Right…

AP StrangeApr 29, 20196 min read
Clowns to the Left of Me, Joker to the Right…

It’s been a weird week, here at the headquarters of your humble Aficionado. I set out to write a nice little analysis of the Joker,…

The Joker’s World

AP StrangeApr 25, 20197 min read
The Joker’s World

The original Joker – Batman #1, 1940 This year saw the 80th anniversary of the first appearance of Batman, published March 30, 1939 in Detective…

Creeping into the Valley of the Uncanny

AP StrangeApr 24, 20197 min read
Creeping into the Valley of the Uncanny

“The Uncanny Valley” is a term coined by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori, describing a sudden disorienting absence of familiarity that leads to a general feeling…

Nessie-a-Day #7 – Fair Wetherell Friends

AP StrangeApr 18, 20194 min read
Nessie-a-Day #7 – Fair Wetherell Friends

As the Nessie-a-Day entries wind down, I thought it only appropriate to get back to that photo – the Surgeon’s Photo, which inspired the series.…

Nessie-a-Day #6 – Conjecture Time

AP StrangeApr 17, 20195 min read
The Weirdo Collective

via GIPHY So far in the series of daily Loch Ness Monster posts, I’ve covered a few of the many people involved in the history…

Nessie-a-Day #5 – East of the Loch, as the Crow(ley) Flies…

AP StrangeApr 16, 20195 min read
Nessie-a-Day #5 – East of the Loch, as the Crow(ley) Flies…

The Loch Ness Monster is many things to many people – to some, those perhaps with a tendency toward magical thought, Nessie may well be…

Nessie-a-Day #4 – Tony Shiels… What’s up, ‘Doc’?

AP StrangeApr 15, 20195 min read
Nessie-a-Day #4 – Tony Shiels… What’s up, ‘Doc’?

Tony ‘Doc’ Shiels is one of the most fun and colorful characters I’ve come across in all of my strange reading. And that’s saying something!…

Nessie-a-Day #3 – Sail into the (Synchro)Mystic

AP StrangeApr 14, 20199 min read
Nessie-a-Day #3 – Sail into the (Synchro)Mystic

Today’s Nessie post is a bit of a mind-bender and one I probably put way much thought into. It involves a bit of the Fortean…

Nessie-a-Day #2 – The Loch Gets Wilder

AP StrangeApr 13, 20192 min read
Nessie-a-Day #2 – The Loch Gets Wilder

In spring of 2016, an underwater robot caught a picture of a monster in the loch – but this monster had been photographed before, some…

Archive

The Paradox of Credibility When Confronting the Incredible

AP StrangeNov 20, 202317 min read
The Paradox of Credibility When Confronting the Incredible

 The tinfoil hat, the country bumpkin, the cork board strewn with a tangled web of string- these are examples of images used in the old…

The Journey of the Fool

AP StrangeNov 11, 202310 min read
The Journey of the Fool

The Major Arcana of the Tarot is filled with timeless images of mysterious origin, each numbered and offering a plethora of interpretations for the purpose…

Guest Post: The Devil Rides Side-Saddle, Elon has a Stroke Whilst Mrs. Peel Limbers Up by Steve Mills

AP StrangeOct 28, 20238 min read
Guest Post: The Devil Rides Side-Saddle, Elon has a Stroke Whilst Mrs. Peel Limbers Up by Steve Mills

 The following is a guest post by the one and only Reverend StarDoG, Steve Mills, which nicely pairs with the recent Universal Monster movie post for your…

The Children of the Monsters You Couldn’t Mash – The Universal Appeal of the Undead

AP StrangeOct 23, 202324 min read
The Children of the Monsters You Couldn’t Mash – The Universal Appeal of the Undead

“It’s alive!”We all know the line Dr. Frankenstein shouts in maniacal glee. Thunder crashes outside the castle walls as if in response, heightening the drama…

Introducing: The Holy Donut Revival Hour!

AP StrangeOct 8, 20232 min read
Introducing: The Holy Donut Revival Hour!

Friends! I am happy to formally announce here that my bestie SJ and I have teamed up to bring you The Holy Donut Revival Hour-…

Nestled in the Holy Bosom of Bigfoot

AP StrangeSep 30, 202313 min read
Nestled in the Holy Bosom of Bigfoot

Bigfoot is, well, big these days. The legendary cryptid seems to be enjoying a renaissance of a sort; the iconic profile in mid-step appears on…

The Marlborough Mystery and the Bones of the 23 Enigma

AP StrangeSep 23, 202310 min read
The Marlborough Mystery and the Bones of the 23 Enigma

 In November of 1913, a ship called the Johnson made a gruesome discovery. While traveling past a cove off the coast of Chile, they spotted a…

The Fox and the Faculty X Files

AP StrangeSep 10, 202313 min read
The Fox and the Faculty X Files

There can be no doubt that Fox Broadcasting Company has had a massive impact on culture, especially in the United States. While broadly this has…

Wight Magic and the Sandown Ghost Clown

AP StrangeSep 4, 202316 min read
Wight Magic and the Sandown Ghost Clown

Often in media, ghost activity is presented as occurring in a place where violent deaths or at least trauma has occurred. Other times, cemeteries are…

Blue Moons, Blue Lights, and Elvis Disclosure

AP StrangeAug 30, 20234 min read
Blue Moons, Blue Lights, and Elvis Disclosure

 “Blue Moon, Now I’m no longer aloneWithout a dream in my heartWithout a love of my own…”At the time of this writing, we are on the…

The Esoteric Secrets of the Three Stooges

AP StrangeJul 16, 202312 min read
The Esoteric Secrets of the Three Stooges

There are, on occasion, people and things within the scope of our collective cultural reference that loom so large that they become an omnipresent, subliminal…

Presenting: Strange Words for a Weird World!

AP StrangeJul 10, 20231 min read
Presenting: Strange Words for a Weird World!

 For those who enjoy my writing here on the blog, please consider checking out this little eBook I put together on gumroad. Publishing my writing here…

A Hand Full of Wyrd

AP StrangeJul 3, 202310 min read
A Hand Full of Wyrd

Cheiromancy, the art of reading palms, has one of the most classic fortune telling motifs. The idea that the entire course of one’s life can…

Doomsday Predictions Ain’t Rocket Science!

AP StrangeJul 2, 20239 min read
Doomsday Predictions Ain’t Rocket Science!

 On an October evening in 1899, a boy climbed a cherry tree to trim some branches, a task given to him by his parents. While…

UFO Rope Tricks and Threads From Nowhere

AP StrangeMay 21, 20239 min read
The Weirdo Collective

We all love a good yarn, and anyone who has looked into mysterious phenomena with any degree of honest inquiry is well familiar with those…

Emanations From the Clown Realm- Legend Tripping, Hilarious Magic, and Synchronicity

AP StrangeMay 7, 20238 min read
Emanations From the Clown Realm- Legend Tripping, Hilarious Magic, and Synchronicity

Clowns and clowning around have long been a theme on this blog. Some of my earliest posts on here concerned my fascination with them, in…

Exorcism Extravaganza!

AP StrangeApr 23, 202312 min read
Exorcism Extravaganza!

(The following first appeared in the March 2023 issue of Paranormality Magazine.) The word “Exorcism” brings to mind familiar images largely borne out of pop culture…

Fishin’ for the Truth – a Brief Dip into Fiction. Or is it?

AP StrangeApr 2, 20234 min read
Fishin’ for the Truth – a Brief Dip into Fiction. Or is it?

For all intents and purposes, the following story is a work of fiction- but I have it on good authority from the Extradimensional Narrator that…

Full of Hot Air- Ruminations on UFOs and those Numinous Balloons

AP StrangeFeb 12, 202311 min read
The Weirdo Collective

 At the time I sat down to write this, news and social media had been all abuzz about a Chinese spy balloon seen floating across…

A Halloween Treat – Destiny of the Wolf

AP StrangeOct 23, 20222 min read
A Halloween Treat – Destiny of the Wolf

As a Halloween treat this year, I decided to write a story! Being a big Bela Lugosi fan, it always kind of bummed me out that…

Bad Movies For Bad People Vol. I

AP StrangeSep 18, 20229 min read
Bad Movies For Bad People Vol. I

Bad Movies For Bad PeopleThis past April, I lost my best friend Jeff Siegrist. Jeff was many things to many people, as I elucidated in my…

Who – Or What— Is "Outreach"?

AP StrangeSep 11, 20223 min read
The Weirdo Collective

 A brief post, while I’m thinking about it…You see, an informant that I’m not at liberty to disclose the name of alerted me to the…

Elvis by the Numbers or: The King and the Tower of Death

AP StrangeAug 15, 202210 min read
Elvis by the Numbers or: The King and the Tower of Death

 It’s been 45 years since Elvis left the building one final time. August 16, 1977, Elvis Aaron Presley was found dead in the bathroom of…

The Local Flying Saucer Report, 1947

AP StrangeJun 24, 20223 min read
The Local Flying Saucer Report, 1947

 It’s been 75 years since a man named Kenneth Arnold witnessed anomalous flying objects from the cockpit of his plane, and the ensuing media frenzy…

Forteana for a Froggy Evening

AP StrangeFeb 4, 20229 min read
The Weirdo Collective

Frogs hold a special place in the annals of Forteana – Charles Fort documented cases of frogs falling from the sky in his book that…

"You’re Just Like a Little Child Chasing a Balloon into the Sunset" – Guest Post by Steve Mills

AP StrangeJul 10, 202113 min read
"You’re Just Like a Little Child Chasing a Balloon into the Sunset" – Guest Post by Steve Mills

The following is a guest post by my good friend Steve Mills, aka the Most Reverend StarDog. He has some thoughts and research to share…

From Brooklyn to Neptune: The Bugs Bunny / UFO Connection!

AP StrangeFeb 28, 202110 min read
From Brooklyn to Neptune: The Bugs Bunny / UFO Connection!

 On July 27, 1940, Bugs Bunny appeared for the first time in movie theaters in the Tex Avery directed cartoon A Wild Hare. Earlier versions…

The Curious Case of the Fish Doctor and the Man From Ashtar Galactic Command, Part III

AP StrangeJan 21, 202011 min read
The Curious Case of the Fish Doctor and the Man From Ashtar Galactic Command, Part III

“…one call came through claiming to be from Outer Space; the rather-stunned telephonist on the exchange put the call through to the only phone that…

The Curious Case of the Fish Doctor and the Man From Ashtar Galactic Command, Part II

AP StrangeDec 5, 20196 min read
The Curious Case of the Fish Doctor and the Man From Ashtar Galactic Command, Part II

“The Path has, absolutely has: to be forged, not merely followed; alone- quite alone; by the seeker.” – Rex Dutta, Reality of Occult / Yoga…

The Curious Case of the Fish Doctor and the Man From Ashtar Galactic Command, Part I

AP StrangeNov 26, 20197 min read
The Curious Case of the Fish Doctor and the Man From Ashtar Galactic Command, Part I

“For many years you have seen us as lights in the skies. We speak to you now in peace and wisdom as we have done…

Of Grumpy Cats and Alternate Realities

AP StrangeMay 18, 20196 min read
Of Grumpy Cats and Alternate Realities

On Friday, May 17th, the news hit the internet that celebrity pet and meme legend Grumpy Cat had passed away, due to complications from a…

Some Other Sphere Podcast Appearance

AP StrangeMay 2, 20191 min read
Some Other Sphere Podcast Appearance

via GIPHY It’s my pleasure to announce that the episode of the podcast Some Other Sphere wherein host Rick Palmer interviewed me about Discordianism is now…

Clowns to the Left of Me, Joker to the Right…

AP StrangeApr 29, 20196 min read
Clowns to the Left of Me, Joker to the Right…

It’s been a weird week, here at the headquarters of your humble Aficionado. I set out to write a nice little analysis of the Joker,…

The Joker’s World

AP StrangeApr 25, 20197 min read
The Joker’s World

The original Joker – Batman #1, 1940 This year saw the 80th anniversary of the first appearance of Batman, published March 30, 1939 in Detective…

Creeping into the Valley of the Uncanny

AP StrangeApr 24, 20197 min read
Creeping into the Valley of the Uncanny

“The Uncanny Valley” is a term coined by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori, describing a sudden disorienting absence of familiarity that leads to a general feeling…

Nessie-a-Day #7 – Fair Wetherell Friends

AP StrangeApr 18, 20194 min read
Nessie-a-Day #7 – Fair Wetherell Friends

As the Nessie-a-Day entries wind down, I thought it only appropriate to get back to that photo – the Surgeon’s Photo, which inspired the series.…

Nessie-a-Day #6 – Conjecture Time

AP StrangeApr 17, 20195 min read
The Weirdo Collective

via GIPHY So far in the series of daily Loch Ness Monster posts, I’ve covered a few of the many people involved in the history…

Nessie-a-Day #5 – East of the Loch, as the Crow(ley) Flies…

AP StrangeApr 16, 20195 min read
Nessie-a-Day #5 – East of the Loch, as the Crow(ley) Flies…

The Loch Ness Monster is many things to many people – to some, those perhaps with a tendency toward magical thought, Nessie may well be…

Nessie-a-Day #4 – Tony Shiels… What’s up, ‘Doc’?

AP StrangeApr 15, 20195 min read
Nessie-a-Day #4 – Tony Shiels… What’s up, ‘Doc’?

Tony ‘Doc’ Shiels is one of the most fun and colorful characters I’ve come across in all of my strange reading. And that’s saying something!…

Nessie-a-Day #3 – Sail into the (Synchro)Mystic

AP StrangeApr 14, 20199 min read
Nessie-a-Day #3 – Sail into the (Synchro)Mystic

Today’s Nessie post is a bit of a mind-bender and one I probably put way much thought into. It involves a bit of the Fortean…

Nessie-a-Day #2 – The Loch Gets Wilder

AP StrangeApr 13, 20192 min read
Nessie-a-Day #2 – The Loch Gets Wilder

In spring of 2016, an underwater robot caught a picture of a monster in the loch – but this monster had been photographed before, some…