Here's that companion piece I was talking about in the other episode. This one covers (much like the title says) post-Soviet "Para-journalism", urban legends, as well as "urbex legends". It's a mixed bag of stories about abandoned Soviet bioweapons labs, weird physics defying anomalies, fish-man surgical experiments (I ain't hardly bullshittin' neither, check dat shit out!), Kozyrev Mirrors, and a whole bunch of other assorted high strangeness. This episode is brought to you by VODKA...PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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For SOURCES see last episode, or check the online archives of the various periodicals mentioned in this episode. They're out there.

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SUP KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! This episode happened because I stumbled across some material I just couldn't stop reading about. So...I made an episode about it! Listen up as this episode explores the actual real life subculture of dangerous urbex mutants who breach the guarded perimeter of the poisonous radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (or just "The Zone", if you're one of the cool kids!). We'll explore the Stalker way of life, ideas, concepts, etc. and together take a guided tour of the most notable "tourist attractions" within the Zone, as well as look at some of the Stalker folklore concerning rituals and strange inhumanoid dangers one may face when traversing..."THE ZONE!" All this plus a look into post-Soviet era "para-journalism" (more on that in the companion piece to this episode) as well as examination of urban legends surrounding a former Soviet era ruin supposedly inhabited by a "Satanic black magic cult", which as I'm sure most regular listeners know...is sure to be a hoot. PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES (which also count for the companion episode as well but since I like to cut every corner I can, will only post here):

Chernobyl Prayer / Voices from Chernobyl (Oral History), Svetlana Alexievich (1997).

Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment, Yablokov, Nesterenko, & Nesterenko (2009).

Post-Soviet Tunnel Folklore: Samizdat & Para-Journalism Archives (1990s) detailing the "Metrostroy Blind Ones" / "Podzemnye Zhiteli".

The Mothman Prophecies (Comparative Case Studies), John Keel (1975).

Newspaper Archives of "Komsomolskoye Znamya" & "Anomaliya" Journal Reports (Kiev, 1990–1995) on the "Podzemnye Zhiteli"

Lost Inside a Radioactive Bunker in Chernobyl - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fBmDwo4ebQ

Nezavisimost Digital Archive (Komsomolskoye Znamya) - https://www.eastview.com/resources/gpa/nezavisimost/

RuFORS & UFOset Soviet Samizdat Digital Library - http://www.rufors.ru/

The National Security Archive (Chernobyl Declassified Files) - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/

https://www.youtube.com/@paranormalresearchpaul/videos

If you are struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse issues, maybe try heading out to "The Zone" for a bit? Clear your head? But if you require immediate assistance, please dial 988.

This is the final bits and conceptual pieces of the "Megalopolimancy" trilogy, parts that didn't quite fit anywhere else of ideas that I really, really, wanted to harp on a lot more. That, and maybe a dash of fancy foot play...but in wordplay. Wait...is it "fancy footwork"...is that the saying? Well fuck that, I prefer play over work. Anywho, give it a listen, it puts a nice little nerdy bowtie on everything else in the series. PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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All music used is license free from Pixaby.com

If you are currently struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse issues...well, yeah. Naturally. Life is hard and the world is a bit shit these days. But if you need immediate help, please dial 988.

HEYYOOOOOOO! This one was a lotta fun! I hope you guys enjoy listening to it as much as I did researching it and putting it together! In this episode, we're closing out the big, huge, and super crazy "Megalopolimancy" trilogy, with an intense exploration of some of the stranger theories behind the infamous Whitechapel murders and the historical phantom of London, "JACK THE RIPPER!" Specifically, we look into some of the lesser known occult explanations behind the murders, as well as some of the other "ritualistic" murders that were taking place at the same time, how the Whitechapel murders are connected to "The Nephilim" (yeah, there's actually something there), and one of the absolute most wacky ass, mindbending, 4th dimensional suspects for the true identity of "The Ripper"! ALL THIS AND MORE! IT'S A GODDAMN EXTRAVAGANZA! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

Tom Slemen — Jack the Ripper: Secret Service

Ivor Edwards — Jack the Ripper's Black Magic Rituals

Spiro Dimolianis — Jack the Ripper and the Black Magic Rituals

George Bernard Shaw — Letter to The Star (24 Sept. 1888)

Robert Donston Stephenson ("Roslyn D'Onston") — "African Magic" (Lucifer, 1890)

Helena P. Blavatsky (ed.) — Lucifer

Aleister Crowley — The Confessions of Aleister Crowley

Richard von Krafft-Ebing — Psychopathia Sexualis

Alexandre Lacassagne — Collected criminological writings

The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)

Matthew Ehret — Articles and lectures on Sir Charles Warren, Mount Hermon, and British geopolitics

Sir Charles Warren — Underground Jerusalem

George Nickelsburg — 1 Enoch: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch

Sarah Bax Horton — One-Armed Jack: Uncovering the Real Jack the Ripper

Stephen Knight — Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution

Melvyn Fairclough — The Ripper and the Royals

Donald Rumbelow — The Complete Jack the Ripper

Philip Sugden — The Complete History of Jack the Ripper

Martin Fido — The Crimes, Detection and Death of Jack the Ripper

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Here's some extra content in celebration for 200 subscribers on YouTube! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT! Here's some more farm animal lore, surrounding goat folks!

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SOURCES:

SOURCES:

Albert Rosales' "Humanoid Encounters Series"

https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Pan

https://www.mythfolks.com/goatman

https://www.coasttocoastam.com/alternate/amp/show/2024-08-11-show/

https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/goatman.htm

https://brickthology.com/2021/06/27/goatman/

https://www.francophilesanonymes.com/en/paris/pan-itinerary

http://arcana.wikidot.com/satyr

https://www.wmoda.com/pan_in_porcelain/

https://www.encyclopedia.com/philosophy-and-religion/ancient-religions/ancient-religion/pan

https://vamzzz.com/blog/satyr-pan/

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-xpm-2012-jul-25-la-na-nn-utah-goatman-20120725-story.html

https://www.upr.org/utah-news/2012-07-25/goat-man-comes-forward

https://www.foxnews.com/us/mysterious-goat-man-identified-as-a-hunter

https://www.standard.net/lifestyle/2012/jul/19/hiker-talks-about-encounter-with-goat-man-on-ben-lomond-peak/

https://cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/goatmen-satyrs/

https://timelessmyths.com/classical/pantheon/minor-greek-deities/pan/

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HornedHumanoid

https://occult-world.com/911-creature/

https://greekmythology.fandom.com/wiki/Pan

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/912467

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/religion-and-philosophy/satyr

https://www.theoi.com/Georgikos/Panes.html

https://deathcookie.com/home/monster-of-the-week-the-goatman/

Humanoid Sighting Reports 1000 BC - 2007 by Albert Rosales-studylib.net

r/Humanoidencounters

The Goatman of Maryland: An American Satyr Born of Science and Fear | by I Heart Cryptids - medium.com

Getting Maryland's Goat-scholarworks.iu.edu

Volume 43, Number 3 March 2023 Do You Remember the Goat Man?-www.maryvillegov.com

10.01.01.00. (000) Green card Satyrs = tragoi, panes, silenoi Texts[warburg.sas.ac.uk

University of North Carolina Asheville Journal of Undergraduate Research-janeway.uncpress.org

WOOOOO! Gotta lotta stuff to do! Please give it a listen! HAPPY BICENTENNIAL...TO ME! YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST! PLEASE TO ENJOY! (P.S. Sorry about my voice, I'm a little under the weather and just got the shit kicked outta me...by life.)

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SOURCES:

wikipedia.org

chinaknowledge.de

sailingstonetravel.com

folklorescotland.com

fandom.com

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/

https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/offensive-swarm-enabled-tactics

https://www.darpa.mil/news/2021/offset-swarms-take-flight

https://dsiac.dtic.mil/articles/darpa-offset-autonomous-drone-swarms-for-warfighters/

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~claytronics/claytronics/programmable%20matter.pdf

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8ZbtZqH6Io

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/aerovironment-develops-birdlike-drone-for-military-2389424.php

https://www.facebook.com/corridordigital/posts/is-this-proof-that-aliens-walk-among-usthis-ring-doorbell-camera-clip-spread-lik/1335751561252206/

https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Stick_Men

https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/1rzl9wi/the_floating_bag/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/oaklawntornado/posts/10161544232307721/

Sup you beautiful kooks! Have you ever wondered if there's more to the design and creation of the major cities we inhabit? Some underlying intelligence or lifeforce? Why is your city the way it is and who made it that way? This here's the first episode in a multi-part series covering everything it says in the title AND SO MUCH MORE! The first third of the episode is an introduction to some of the concepts and ideas we'll be exploring throughout the series and the rest gets knee deep and dirty into numerous REAL LIFE EXAMPLES! This episode explores such "megalopolimantic" concepts as:

Infernal Geometry & Architecture (the opposite of "sacred"!), Geomancy, Ley Lines/Dragon Lines, Psychogeography, "Black Streams", Vile Vortices, Egregores, Builder's Rites, City Wide Sigils & Mega Rituals, Psychetecture, Human Sacrifices, Stone Tape Theory/Residual Hauntings, Hauntology, The Panopticon & The Omnipresent All Seeing Evil Eye, PLUS SO MUCH MORE!

Then we take all of these concepts and go around the world to look at numerous real world applications of these practices! We look at Washington DC's Masonic Layout, Feng Shui Wars in Hong Kong, Secret Science Cities, The Parisian Post-Modern Necropolis, Various Haunted Modern Metropolitan Areas, and The Secret Techniques of Control Imposed Over Reality by the Powers That Be! PLUS: We examine our modern day ritualized cityscapes as potential physical bodies for egregores! & FOR FUCKS SAKE! IT'S NEARLY 3 HOURS OF CONTENT, SO NOW THAT MY BRAIN IS BROKEN FROM MAKING IT, I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE TO DO BUT SCREAM INTO THE AETHER THAT YOU LISTEN TO EVERY LAST GODDAMN DROP! OKAY?! Please to enjoy!

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SOURCES: Ho-lee sheeyit! There's so many goddamn sources that are so goddamn important that they're pretty much getting their own goddamn "ONE POINT FIVER!" episode! So go and check that out too goddamn it! THANK YOU MUCHO!

If you are struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse issues, maybe it's just what the city wants?! DON'T PLAY THEIR GAME! But if you need immediate assistance, it's perfectly safe and alright to dial 988. I've done it more than once and there's actually good people out there who truly want to help. YOU ARE NOT ALONE...YOU ARE NEVER ALONE!

HEYYOOOOOO! It's a muthaflippin' bonus episode where we take a look at the many literary and esoteric foundations that helped put this whole wacky ass multi-part series into action! In this episode we'll explore sources such as: "OUR LADY OF DARKNESS" by Fritz Leiber, misc. Lovecraftian works featuring "non-Euclidean geometry", Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell's "FROM HELL" (not the shitty Hollywood Johnny Dip version but the real shit), Iain Sinclair's "LUD HEAT", "HAWKSMOORE" by Peter Ackroyd, "EGREGORES" by Mark Stavish, John Keel's "THE EIGHTH TOWER", Patrick Harpur's "DAIMONIC REALITY", "THE TRICKSTER & THE SUPERNATURAL" by George Hansen, & "TEITO MONOGATARI" a.k.a. "DOOMED MEGALOPOLIS!" just to name a few! These are the foundational works that lay out the conceptual framework of this series through the use of speculative fiction! THEN WE GET INTO THE NITTY GRITTY! We delve into occult tomes and works of esoteric sciences like "INFERNAL GEOMETRY" by Toby Chappell, "WHAT IS THE 4th DIMENSION?" by Charles Hinton, plus other works of such high strangeness as "HOUSES THAT KILL", "ALIEN ENERGY", & "A BURGLAR'S GUIDE TO THE CITY"...PLUS SO MUCH MORE! After listening to this episode (hell, this whole series for that matter!) your brain oughta be overflowing with so much mind- bending, reality warping, hyper-dimensional, psychic karate moves that now YOU! Yes! YOU! CAN FIGHT AN ENTIRE CITY & WIN! INFINITYx1UP! HOORAY & FOREVER! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES: You're soaking in them.

If shit gets outa hand, please dial 988.