30 days ago I decided that I would disseminate a selection of the various weird subjects I had come across on Facebook and Twitter. For two main reasons, the first being that I think most of these things are genuinely interesting or intriguing and its always good to know more. The second being that I wanted to give myself some impetus to read or re-read the rather large amount of material (literally thousands of pages) I had amassed. The second reason has borne fruit and I’m hoping that the first did likewise for anyone who has been following along. I’ve collected all of the “entries” in the “series” here.
Day 1
I’ve amassed a giant backlog of odd shit to read through. The real world is fucked up. So each day for the next month I’m going to post a link to something odd or interesting (more in order to force myself to read them than to illuminate you guys). So I’ll ease in gently – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos_Disc
Day 2 – Link the second – http://www.miaminewtimes.com/1997-06-05/news/myths-over-miami/
Day 3 – One was rather short and one was more real and depressing than weird, so its a two for one Sunday special http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babalon_Working & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
Day 4 – I cant imagine anyone isnt familiar with the first so I added the second (who is quite possibly my second favourite historical figure) – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKULTRA and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de_Rais
Day 5 – The first ones again rather common knowledge but he is my favourite historical personality bar none – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_of_St._Germain. The second is tragically nowhere near as cool as it sounds – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Thetford_flesh-hook. The third one arguably is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core.
Day 6 – I wish all the former were involved with the latter. Indigo Children irritate me to an incomprehensible degree – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo_children & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Torso_Murderer
Day 7 – Something amazing – http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-495538/Eighth-wonder-world-The-stunning-temples-secretly-carved-ground-paranormal-eccentric.html and something awesome http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5261856.stm
Day 8 – A “gimmee” – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment, another awesome bit of DIY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Castle, and in honour of your favourite villain and mine, The Red Skull, something about nazis – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_society
Day 9 – Another conspiracy classic – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project, a historical cannibal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawney_Bean and a man who gave his book the greatest title ever – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger
Day 10 – The nazi approved alternative to the theory of relativity – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welteislehre, worryingly anachronistic mechanical computer – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism, and a french diplomat, soldier, spy and freemason who had a bet on his sex running on the London stock exchange – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevalier_d%27Eon
Day 11 – Four today as theyre short. I wish to meet none of these things – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melon_heads, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_people, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_Man, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loveland_frog
Day 12 – Books! Books! Books! (its like a strip club for your brain) – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Gigas and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript
Day 13 – This is actually the one for Wednesday. Todays (Yesterdays) theme is control – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White_Brotherhood and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove
Day 14 – Two cannibals and a man with a head drill walk into a bar… – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alferd_Packer, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanning
Day 15 – Three things to power your toaster that are cooler than electricity – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vril , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgone and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston
Day 16 – Day of the McGuffin aka stuff that sounds cooler than it is – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjandrum and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integratron
Also forgot about this, well not so much forgot as was in work and then completing Dragon Age 2, anyhow, Day 17 – Classic Gold Sunday, three classics – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_De_Molay, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony
Day 18 – A man who tried to build a mechanical messiah, a man who railed against the “Worldwide Mad Deadly Communist Gangster Computer God”, and the divine Mother – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Murray_Spear, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_E._Dec and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirra_Alfassa
Day 19 – Just some weird shit – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hands_Resist_Him , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_Case and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Waratah
Day 20 – A sorcerer, a swordswoman and “One mighty and strong” – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Magus, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_d%27Aubigny and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ervil_LeBaron
Day 21 – Better late than tuned to the frequency where madness becomes audible eh? What list of fortean phenomena and general weirdness would be complete with these three entries? – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashic_records and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth
Day 22 & 23 – What do the nails from the true cross, the forevertron, cannibals, dead cities, mummies and solid thought forms have in common? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Crown_of_Lombardy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forevertron, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aghori, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Mountains_Mummy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa
Day 24 – Spiritual eco-warrior’s, mysterious cult leaders, the house of faces and a theory regarding pre-christian nicotine use – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benandanti, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_XII, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9lmez_Faces, http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/sheep-to-the-slaughter/
Day 25 – Three things that one simply MUST have in their cabinet of curiosities – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_Head, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starchild_skull, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_of_Glory, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_curiosities
Day 26 & 27 – Three serial killers, the last renaissance man, the coolest guy in the american civil war and a man who made soap and wanted us to love one another walk into a bar… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley_Allitt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoko_Asahara, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasius_Kircher, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Francisco, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Bronner
Day 28 – 30 – Blowing my load – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Caraboo, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mercury, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taghairm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Cheval, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_meat, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masih_ad-Dajjal
Listening to: Three Dog Night - Joy to the world