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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 Major Arcana of the Tarot is filled with timeless images of mysterious origin, each numbered and offering a plethora of interpretations for the purpose…
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…
“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…
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-…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
(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…
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…
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…
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 PeopleThis past April, I lost my best friend Jeff Siegrist. Jeff was many things to many people, as I elucidated in my…
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…
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…
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…
Frogs hold a special place in the annals of Forteana – Charles Fort documented cases of frogs falling from the sky in his book that…
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…
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…
“…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 Path has, absolutely has: to be forged, not merely followed; alone- quite alone; by the seeker.” – Rex Dutta, Reality of Occult / Yoga…
“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…
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…
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…
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 original Joker – Batman #1, 1940 This year saw the 80th anniversary of the first appearance of Batman, published March 30, 1939 in Detective…
“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…
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.…
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…
The Loch Ness Monster is many things to many people – to some, those perhaps with a tendency toward magical thought, Nessie may well be…
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!…
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…
In spring of 2016, an underwater robot caught a picture of a monster in the loch – but this monster had been photographed before, some…
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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 Major Arcana of the Tarot is filled with timeless images of mysterious origin, each numbered and offering a plethora of interpretations for the purpose…
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…
“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…
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-…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
(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…
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…
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…
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 PeopleThis past April, I lost my best friend Jeff Siegrist. Jeff was many things to many people, as I elucidated in my…
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…
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…
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…
Frogs hold a special place in the annals of Forteana – Charles Fort documented cases of frogs falling from the sky in his book that…
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…
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…
“…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 Path has, absolutely has: to be forged, not merely followed; alone- quite alone; by the seeker.” – Rex Dutta, Reality of Occult / Yoga…
“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…
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…
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…
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 original Joker – Batman #1, 1940 This year saw the 80th anniversary of the first appearance of Batman, published March 30, 1939 in Detective…
“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…
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.…
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…
The Loch Ness Monster is many things to many people – to some, those perhaps with a tendency toward magical thought, Nessie may well be…
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!…
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…
In spring of 2016, an underwater robot caught a picture of a monster in the loch – but this monster had been photographed before, some…