SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOOKS! Question: Just what the hell is up with cornfields? Why are they so creepy and weird? Well, as it turns out, this ain't exactly nothin' new. In fact, they've pretty much ALWAYS been creepy as fuck! Not only that, but they seem to play host a WIDE VARIETY of utterly mind bending high strangeness: cryptids, aliens, ritual occultism, homicide, and some of the creepiest folklore and unsettling urban legends I've ever heard (and I've heard some shit y'all!). PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES: (holy shit...it's a bunch!)

- MUFON Case 93876 (Ohio Pale Crawler, 2018) - Mutual UFO Network database; reported via Cryptid Maps

- Singular Fortean Society case files (Indiana winged humanoid; Winn Corn Monster, Michigan 2003) - investigated by Tobias Wayland

- Delphos Ring physical trace case (1971) - APRO (Aerial Phenomena Research Organization); documented at UFOCasebook.com, OpenMinds.tv

- Boyd County Barley Circle (Nebraska, 2000s) - Independent Crop Circle Researchers Association (ICCRA); reported by farmer Kelly Riser

- Beast of Bray Road (Wisconsin, 1980s-90s) - Originally reported in Walworth County Week; investigated by journalist Linda Godfrey

- Kelly-Hopkinsville Goblins (Kentucky, 1955) - Police reports; documented in The Sutton Family Case Files

- Big Muddy Monster (Illinois, 1973) - Murphysboro Police Department records (open case file)

- Alliance, Ohio Entity Encounter (1957) - Regional ufological archives; Sam Aellig Case

- Michigan Dogman - Reed City Field Sightings (1987) - Wexford, Osceola, Mecosta county reports

- David Lang Disappearance (1880, Gallatin, Tennessee) - 19th-century newspaper serials and parapsychological digests

- Feral Husker of Darke County, Ohio (1990) - Local agricultural records and oral histories

- Oakhaven Crop-Phantom (Gadsden, Alabama, 1952) - Etowah County historical records

- Roachdale, Indiana Incidents (1972) - Don Worley, UFO Annual Tri-County UFO Study Group; Mark Moravec, 'The UFO Anthropoid Catalog'

- Coyner Farm Convergence (Augusta County, Virginia, 1973) - Multi-witness high strangeness documentation

- Anson County Grid (North Carolina, 1975) - Temporal disorientation documentation

- Cornfield Murders/Miller & Braintwain Case (Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1981) - Law enforcement records

- Gourd & Husk Murders (Yolo County, California, 1999) - Criminal investigation records

- National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) - 1973 wave documentation; highway abduction patterns

- Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) - Minnesota shift worker report; Ohio Dogman-adjacent sightings

- Project Blue Book archives - 1957 Ohio flap context; Olden Moore incident

- FBI Animal Mutilation files (1975-1979) - cattle mutilation wave documentation

- BLT Research Team (Biophysics Laboratory Teams: W.C. Levengood, Nancy Talbott, John Burke) - cellular analysis, germination studies, soil mineralogy

- Independent Crop Circle Researchers Association (ICCRA) - geometric analysis

- Piezoelectric/Strain Hypothesis - Michael Persinger, Paul Devereux

- Plasma Vortex Theory - Terence Meaden

- Aztec (Mexica) Rites of Chicomecóatl and Centéotl - Mesoamerican agricultural ritual documentation

- Skidi Pawnee Morning Star Ceremony - Ethnographic records; last documented execution April 1838

- Maya Young Maize God (Hun Hunahpu) Sacrifices - Popol Vuh; Mesoamerican iconography

- Germanic Feldgeister and Korndämonen traditions - Roggenmuhme, Hafermann, Chochlik, Żytnia Panna

- Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Husk Face Society (Gagonsa/Gajesa) - William N. Fenton, Iroquois Maskology (1987)

- Appalachian and Midwestern oral tradition - Bell-Ringing Ritual; Corn Witch rhymes (Indiana, 1937; Illinois, 1952)

- "Bohunk" folklore evolution - Jan Harold Brunvand, The Vanishing Hitchhiker (1981)

...THERE'S WAY MORE BUT THIS IS ALL I CAN FIT. BUT IF YOU WANT'EM, I GOT'EM!

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SUP KOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! This episode is a bit of an introductory look at so called "vortex" areas and "window areas" where ALLLLLLLLLL TYPES OF WEIRD SHIT HAPPEN! This episode essentially asks the question..."What up wit dat?" ALSO! Can these so called "window areas" be connected with and/or (perhaps much scarier) WEAPONIZED? Let's take a look, shan't we? LET'S SHAN'T! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES: "My Cosmic Trigger" by Matt Vaughn, as well as various works by Joseph Farrell, check 'em out!

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SUP KOOOOOOOOOOKS! This is a WEIRD'UN! This episode covers the work of ALLEN H. GREENFIELD! We're talking about the intersection of UFOLOGY & OCCULTISM! Greenfield is on the forefront of the eternal battle for human evolution, a war that's being fought between the good UFOnauts vs. the men in black...a.k.a. "THE BLACK LODGE!" Through the use of Greenfield's qabalistic code, he's deciphered the secret messages of our ultraterrestrial forebears! Not only that, but we got star-fish-god-daddies from the ocean, goblins, the long lost Johannite tradition, & GODDAMN GOBLINS! This one's just a lil' bit all over the place...PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

*"Secret Cipher of The Ufonauts", "Secret Rituals of The Men In Black", "Secrets of The Real Black Lodge Revealed", "Saucers and Saucerers", by Allen H. Greenfield

*YouTube Channel "Bedtime Stories" 2 part series covering "The Kentucky Goblins":

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A24YEOdnMvI

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ71y-1AmxE

*The Hellier series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1FwIuicx88

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HEYYOOO! WHAT'S UP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOKS! This episode is an exploration of the reoccurring symbolism of the much dreaded red triangle mark(s) attributed to alien abductions, cattle mutilations, and even potentially showing up in old witch BBQ party cook books of "yay olden tymesese...s"! This episode is as as close to a one stop shop for all your triple dot thoughts as one could ever possibly drop...so give it a listen and like, CHOP! CHOP! Or listen at your own damned leisure as you bask in the gravy bath of your own damned freedom! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

- Dr. X Case (Aimé Michel, Gordon Creighton, 1968)

- Cash-Landrum Incident (Texas, 1980, documented by MUFON)

- Linda Cortile Case (Budd Hopkins, "Witnessed," 1996)

- Dr. Karla Turner ("Into the Fringe," "Taken," 1992-1994)

- Betty Andreasson Luca (Raymond Fowler, "The Andreasson Affair," 1979)

- Belgian UFO Wave (1989-1990, SOBEPS documentation)

- Phoenix Lights (Arizona, 1997, multiple witness documentation)

- Judy Doraty Case (Linda Moulton Howe, "A Strange Harvest," 1980)

- Cattle Mutilation Phenomenon (Colorado, New Mexico, 1970s-1990s, FBI files)

- Witch Trial Documentation ("Malleus Maleficarum," Scottish Witchcraft Survey, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1997)

- Defense Intelligence Agency Report ("UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects," 2022)

- Medical Literature (Erythema Multiforme, NIH, Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins)

If you're struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse issues, please dial 988...then simply await the 3 dots.

HEYYOOOOOOOOOOO! WHAT'S UP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOKS! This episode explores the "CONTROL SYSTEM HYPOTHESIS" as formulated by the one and only UFO folk saint, JACQUES VALLEE! MY MAIN MANG! BOOYAKASHA! GET WIT' IT YO! KNOWMSAYYYNNNNN! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

- Anatomy of a Phenomenon (1965) by Jacques Vallee

- Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers (1969) by Jacques Vallee

- The Invisible College (1975) by Jacques Vallee

- Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults (1979) by Jacques Vallee

- Dimensions (1988), Confrontations (1990), and Revelations (1991) by Jacques Vallee

- Forbidden Science: Journals 1957–1988 (1992) by Jacques Vallee

- Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times (2009) by Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck

- Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret (2021) by Jacques Vallee and Paola Harris

- Documentation of the 1968 Dr. X case, including medical records of triangular burns/healing anomalies

- Documentation of the 1977 Colares UFO Wave (Operation Prato), including Brazilian military investigation records

- Documentation of the 1981 Trans-en-Provence case, including French government laboratory analysis of physical trace evidence

- Records of Vallee's work at Stanford Research Institute on ARPANET development/remote viewing research

- The 1897 Great Airship Wave historical records/newspaper accounts

- Documentation of the 1917 Miracle of Fatima, including witness testimonies/historical analysis

- The 1945 Trinity Site military records/geological surveys

- Correspondence/collaboration with J. Allen Hynek, documented in Vallee's journals/published works.

If you're feeling all fucked up inside, chances are you probably live in America. Call 988. Just to be on the safe side.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOO! THIS IS A BIG'UN! Lot's of hypothetical craziness in this one. We got tulpas, egregores, memetic entities, pale crawlers, glimmer men, imposter entities, "tulpatronics" (yes, I'm back at it again), and the relationships we share with our fictions. It's heavy psychedelic shit...MAN-MAN-MAN-MAN-Man-man! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

• Strickler, Lon. The Meme Humanoids: Modern Myths or Real Monsters (2023/2024). The definitive treatment of pale, crawling humanoid phenomena/internet-age cryptid manifestation.

• Cutchin, Joshua. Fourth Wall Phantoms: Reflections on the Paranormal, Narrative, and Fictions Becoming Fact (2024). Explores fictional incursions/trickster phenomena/media influence on paranormal experience.

• Ramesh, Chidambaram. Embodied Imaginations (various editions). Examines autonomous characters/writer phenomena/manifestation of mental constructs.

• Geoffrey Biddle et al. Court records and psychiatric evaluations from State of Wisconsin v. Morgan E. Geyser and State of Wisconsin v. Anissa E. Weier (Waukesha County Circuit Court, 2014-2017). Primary documents from the Slenderman stabbing case.

• Hankerson, et al. "Death by Ostension: Folklore, Media, and Violence" in Journal of American Folklore (various articles on "folk crime").

• Dégh, Linda. Legend and Belief: Essays on Legend, Truth, and Reality (2001). The seminal academic treatment of ostension theory.

• Tucker, Abigail. "The Science of Slenderman" in Smithsonian Magazine (2014). Early analysis of the case.

• Ohikuare, Judith. "The Childhood Friends Who Became Killers" in New York Magazine/Vulture (various retrospective articles on the Geyser/Weier case).

• Knudsen, Eric (Victor Surge). Original Slenderman posts, Something Awful Forums, "Create Paranormal Images" thread (June 2009). The genesis of the character.

• r/HumanoidEncounters. Subreddit archives (2012-present). Primary source for contemporary crawler/humanoid reports, including imposter entity accounts.

• Strickler, Lon. Phantoms and Monsters (website and blog archives, 2008-present). Extensive database of crawler sightings/imposter entity reports.

• The Belief Hole Podcast. Episodes on "Crawler Humanoids," "Imposter Entities," and "Tulpas and Thoughtforms" (various seasons, 2018-present). Audio documentation of witness testimony.

• 4chan /x/ (Paranormal) and /b/ (Random) boards. Archives of "creepypasta" culture (2007-2015), including early Slenderman expansion.

• Creepypasta Wiki. The user-generated fiction database that served as transmission vector for Slenderman and related legends.

• Evans-Wentz, W.Y. Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines (1935/1958). Early Western exposition of tulpa creation concepts.

• Besant, Annie and Leadbeater, C.W. Thought-Forms (1901). Theosophical treatise on the materialization of mental energy.

• Jung, Carl. The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (1959). Foundational for understanding collective manifestation.

• Hufford, David. The Terror That Comes in the Night (1982). Academic treatment of sleep paralysis/hypnagogic hallucination (relevant to imposter entity physiology).

• Devereux, Paul. Earth Lights (1982)/Earth Lights Revelation (1989). T. B. Pawlicki-adjacent theories on geological manifestation of anomalous phenomena.

• Harpur, Patrick. Daimonic Reality (1995). The "green man" theory of cultural manifestation of entities.

• Laycock, Joseph. Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds (2015). Context for understanding panic over fictional reality.

• Robinson, James M. (ed.). The Nag Hammadi Library (1977/1990). Primary Gnostic texts, including Apocryphon of John (Demiurge cosmology).

*THERE'S WAY MORE SOURCES, BUT THIS IS ALL I CAN FIT. BUT IF YOU WANT'EM, I GOT'EM!

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WOOOOOOO! What's up you beautiful kooks! Here's a "redux" of James Shelby Downard's weird as worldview, incorporating "his" new book "Stalking The Great Whore" (by author Adam Gorightly, strangely enough). Is Downard a literary hoax? Are his associates "problematic"? (You can bet your bippy they most definitely are!) Listen up and listen good, I say, I say, PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

Downard's books, check' em out...or don't, whatever. Just be mindful if you choose to delve down these particular rabbit holes.

If you are currently struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse issues, you may be the next James Shelby Downard. That's not good. Please dial 988.

If I sound extra energetic, it's because a pretty girl on the street, not in any kind of customer service capacity whatsoever, smiled at me. It was pretty great. Anyway, here's an exploration of Rube Goldberg and his fantastical fantabulous machines...if they were designed TO KILL! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/rube-goldberg

https://study.com/learn/lesson/rube-goldberg-cartoons-inventions.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/407990-largest-rube-goldberg-in-competition

https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/famous-inventors/who-was-rube-goldberg-and-what-are-his-contraptions.htm

https://study.com/academy/lesson/rube-goldberg-machine-ideas.html

https://study.com/learn/lesson/rube-goldberg-cartoons-inventions.html

https://ipcloseup.com/2018/04/10/family-entertainment-this-rube-saw-the-future-and-its-foibles/

https://interestingengineering.com/lists/rube-goldberg-the-man-behind-the-worlds-craziest-machines

https://www.magnets.com/blog/magnetic-chain-reaction.html

U.S. Patent Office: U.S. Patent No. 269,766, issued December 26, 1882, to James A. Williams for "Animal-Trap."

Legal History & Commentary: Google Patents/Public Records, detailing Williams's explicit patent claims regarding adaptation for securing doors/windows against intruders.

Court Documents: People v. Smit, California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Division Two (2013).

News Reporting: The Los Angeles Times & The San Diego Union-Tribune coverage of the Hemet, California police task force attacks and Nicholas Smit’s sentencing (2010–2013).

FBI Records: Federal Bureau of Investigation Historic Case Files, "Harvey's Hotel Bombing (John Birges)."

Media & Documentation: Zero Hour: The Bombing of Harvey's (Documentary) and contemporary coverage by The New York Times (August 1980).

Historical Literature: Ann Larabee, The Dynamite Fiend: The Chilling Tale of Alexander Keith Jr., America's First Terrorist (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

Archive Coverage: The Times of London and international press reports on the Bremerhaven dock explosion (December 1875).

Primary Source: Julijonas Urbonas, Euthanasia Coaster project specifications and conceptual design essays, Royal College of Art/JulijonasUrbonas.php (2010).

Exhibition Documentation: Science Gallery Dublin & Center for Extraordinary Visual Arts catalogs.

Documentary Film: Errol Morris, Mr.Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999).

Investigative Reporting: The Boston Globe & The New York Times investigative profiles on execution technology contracts in the late 1980s.

Michael Ryan Eviction Trap (1993): News Reporting: Associated Press & local Illinois newspaper archives (October/November 1993) covering the barricade, discovery of black-powder traps, and subsequent criminal charges.

Spring-Gun / Booby-Trap Law: Katko v. Briney, 183 N.W.2d 657 (Iowa 1971).

U.S. Patent Code: 35 U.S.C. § 101 (Invention Utility and Operability Requirements).